The U battery is described as an advanced modular reactor, that is capable of providing low-carbon, cost-effective, locally embedded and reliable energy.<\/p>\n
This reactor is much smaller than traditional nuclear reactors, providing just a fraction of the heat.<\/p>\n
However, its creators believe that its smaller size will make it an ideal choice for industrial processes in the UK, being far cheaper and incredibly fast to build.<\/p>\n
Speaking toExpress.co.uk, Timothy Abram, the Chief Engineer at U-Battery said: In its current design, the U battery is essentially a very small reactor.<\/p>\n
The numbers might not mean much, but it provides 10 megawatts of thermal power.<\/p>\n
If you compare that, for example, with a Sizewell B, which is our most recent reactor, that generates 3,411 megawatts.<\/p>\n
In very rough numbers, we use energy for three things. about roughly a third of our energy for electricity generation, third for transport, and a third for heating, that's domestic and industrial process heating.<\/p>\n
Mr Abram noted that the issue with conventional nuclear energy is that it only tackles the electricity-generation aspect.<\/p>\n
He said: One of the biggest things that the U battery can do is change that paradigm.<\/p>\n
That 10 megawatts that the U battery produces, essentially all of it can be used in industrial processes.<\/p>\n
It's not much in terms of the total energy usage in the UK, it is broadly synonymous with perhaps a single user.<\/p>\n
It might be that the big users would require two to four U batteries on their sites.<\/p>\n
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