Climate Changed
This Company Is Designing Nuclear ‘Batteries’ for Towns and Industry
- Urenco tapping into interest for small, modular reactors
- Nuclear fuel maker in talks with Canada, Poland and U.K.
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Urenco Ltd., the world’s second-biggest maker of atomic fuel, is advancing its attempt to supply radically smaller nuclear reactors in order to boost demand for its services.
The company is developing, in conjunction with Amec Foster Wheeler Plc, a generation of small, modular reactors called “U-Batteries,” Chief Executive Officer Thomas Haeberle said in an interview from the company’s headquarters in Stoke Poges, England. Urenco’s miniature reactors can generate 10 megawatts of power or heat, about 1 percent of what comes from a modern atomic plant.