I’m skeptical they have something that we haven’t seen before,” Jacopo Buongiorno, nuclear science and engineering professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said in an email. “Virtually all combinations of reactor coolants, fuels, moderators, power conversion cycles, etc., have been considered, analyzed at one point or another in the past 70 years. Much of the country's electricity comes from hydropower and diesel plants, according to the Rwanda Energy Group, and only about 68% of people have access to electricity.ĭual 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. If 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 and adapt to climate change. to address the need for low-carbon energy. Instead, it will explore the technology developed by Dual Fluid Energy Inc. Rwandan officials said Tuesday that the reactor won’t produce any electricity for the country’s grid.
KIGALI, Rwanda - 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 densely populated countries.
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