Brexit Britain handed energy boost with new ‘mini nuclear reactors to give cheap supply – Express

The U battery is described as an advanced modular reactor, that is capable of providing low-carbon, cost-effective, locally embedded and reliable energy.

This reactor is much smaller than traditional nuclear reactors, providing just a fraction of the heat.

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.

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.

The numbers might not mean much, but it provides 10 megawatts of thermal power.

If you compare that, for example, with a Sizewell B, which is our most recent reactor, that generates 3,411 megawatts.

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.

Mr Abram noted that the issue with conventional nuclear energy is that it only tackles the electricity-generation aspect.

He said: One of the biggest things that the U battery can do is change that paradigm.

That 10 megawatts that the U battery produces, essentially all of it can be used in industrial processes.

It's not much in terms of the total energy usage in the UK, it is broadly synonymous with perhaps a single user.

It might be that the big users would require two to four U batteries on their sites.

READ MORE:Energy crisis: UK handed plan to 'stop Putins stranglehold'

Follow this link:

Brexit Britain handed energy boost with new 'mini nuclear reactors to give cheap supply - Express