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Rwanda signs deal with US nuclear firm for mini-reactors

Published : Friday, 16 August, 2024 at 12:00 AM  Count : 177
KIGALI, Aug 15: Rwanda said it signed Wednesday an agreement with a US company to further develop nuclear energy by constructing mini-reactors in the East African country.

Under the memorandum of understanding, Nano Nuclear Energy Inc will provide technical assistance, training and education, as well as build an unspecified number of small modular reactors (SMRs) and microreactors, the Rwanda Atomic Energy Board (RAEB) said.

Construction of the SMRs and microreactors would take place in the "next few years", Nano Nuclear CEO James Walker told a press conference in Rwanda, foreseeing a "very smooth path towards a very developed civil nuclear programme".

"In Rwanda you have small communities with a few thousand people that doesn't justify a big reactor system, but you could put a microreactor there and it could serve up to 3,000 people for 20 years without need for refuelling."

SMRs produce roughly a third of the power generated by traditional reactors, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency, but can be mass-produced and then transported to their locations.

Rwanda, a country of about 13 million people, currently generates about 51 percent of its electricity from thermal sources, followed by hydro-power at around 44 percent and around four percent from solar power.

The deal aims to ensure that Rwanda has a "robust ability to maintain a self-sustaining domestic nuclear energy industry", RAEB said.

The MoU follows a deal Kigali reached with Canadian-German start-up Dual Fluid last year to build a nuclear reactor, expected to be operational in 2026.    —AFP



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