Deployable Energy selected to test its nuclear battery at DOME

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Deployable Energy selected to test its nuclear battery at DOME

https://inl.gov/news-release/deployable-energy-selected-to-test-its-nuclear-battery-at-dome/

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Idaho National Laboratory will host a 2027 test of the Nuclear Unity Battery, a transportable microreactor designed by Deployable Energy. The self-funded project will evaluate system performance, safety, and operational controls inside the DOME testbed. This campaign allows the developer to gather performance data and advance its commercialization timeline.

(IDAHO FALLS, IDAHO) – The U.S. Department of Energy's National Reactor Innovation Center selected Deployable Energy to test the company's nuclear battery technology inside the Demonstration of Microreactor Experiments, or DOME, testbed at the Idaho National Laboratory in 2027.

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Houston-based Deployable Energy plans to complete a full-power test of its Nuclear Unity Battery, a light-water moderated, helium-cooled transportable microreactor designed to generate 1 MWe. The test builds on the company's earlier work achieving zero-power criticality through Nuclear Energy Launch Pad and will provide an opportunity to evaluate system performance, integration, controls, safety and operational procedures at increased scale.

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https://inl.gov/news-release/deployable-energy-selected-to-test-its-nuclear-battery-at-dome/

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