Rwanda will host a company's 1st small-scale nuclear reactor testing carbon-free energy approach

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KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) — Rwanda’s atomic energy board says it has signed a deal with a Canadian-German company to build its first small-scale nuclear reactor to test what the company asserts is a new nuclear fission approach in one of the world's most d

Rwandan officials said Tuesday that the reactor won’t produce any electricity for the country’s grid. Instead, it will explore the technology developed by Dual Fluid Energy Inc. to address the need for low-carbon energy.

Dual Fluid Energy, founded in Canada in 2021, is one of more than 20 small modular reactor projects in development — using various approaches and fuels — that were assessed in a report this year by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's Nuclear Energy Agency. Dual Fluid Energy is pursuing a nuclear fission based on “liquid fuel and lead coolant" that it claims could produce emission-free electricity, hydrogen and synthetic fuels.

 

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Rwanda to host Canadian-German company’s first small-scale nuclear reactor testing carbon-free energy approachIf all goes well, officials said, Rwanda and the company could set up a production line of such reactors in the central African nation as the country turns to nuclear power to help meet growing energy needs
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