Lunch Webinar - Small lead-cooled reactors as an option?

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Topic”The SEALER-programme to commercialize small lead-cooled reactors in Sweden by 2030”. Abstract LeadCold is a Swedish company developing small lead-cooled reactors with uranium nitride (UN) fuel for serial production in automated factories.In this talk I describe the current R&D program supporting this objective and plans for licensing of an 80 MWth nuclear demonstration unit in Oskarshamn.The programme includes the design, construction and operation of a reactor factory in Sweden, with a capacity of one 55 MWe unit per month. About J. WalleniusJ. Wallenius is professor in reactor physics at KTH and founder of LeadCold. He published ≈ 100 peer-reviewed papers, has written two text-books and was awarded the KTH innovation prize 2022 for his creativity, courage and patience in taking research towards an industrial application.

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• Event Name: Lunch Webinar - Small lead-cooled reactors as an option?
• Date: 1/26/2022 3:47:57 PM
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Topic

”The SEALER-programme to commercialize small lead-cooled reactors in Sweden by 2030”.

Abstract

LeadCold is a Swedish company developing small lead-cooled reactors with uranium nitride (UN) fuel for serial production in automated factories.

In this talk I describe the current R&D program supporting this objective and plans for licensing of an 80 MWth nuclear demonstration unit in Oskarshamn.

The programme includes the design, construction and operation of a reactor factory in Sweden, with a capacity of one 55 MWe unit per month.

About J. Wallenius

J. Wallenius is professor in reactor physics at KTH and founder of LeadCold. He published ≈ 100 peer-reviewed papers, has written two text-books and was awarded the KTH innovation prize 2022 for his creativity, courage and patience in taking research towards an industrial application.