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”Pienydinvoimalan rakentaminen Suomeen on taas askelta lähempänä, sillä Kuopion Energia ja teknologiayhtiö Steady Energy ovat allekirjoittaneet rakentamista koskevan esisuunnittelusopimuksen. Vuoden mittaisen sopimuksen myötä nyt alkava suunnittelutyö tähtää investointipäätöksen tekemiseen ja laitoksen rakentamiseen.”

Decision-makers in Finland's largest cities have a positive attitude towards the construction of small modular reactors in their municipalities, a survey commissioned by Finnish SMR developer Steady Energy has shown.

Research paper by Laura Sokka, Heidi Kirppu and myself on the LCA of Steady Energy's LDR-50 district heating reactor has been published: https://lnkd.in/dAvxm2-F The results show that nuclear energy has very small carbon footprint when used for district heating, especially when compared to any kind of combustion. The other adverse environmental effects were also found to be low. These are really not groundbreaking news, since we already know this for electricity production. The main intention of the study was to fill a knowledge gap, since there are considerable differences in the ways heat and electricity are produced, distributed and consumed. It was also noted that there are still significant uncertainties related to input data. Emission estimates from the nuclear fuel cycle were considered somewhat reliable (no major differences to operating LWRs), but crude simplifications had to be made for the construction phase. The errors are most likely on the conservative side, though.

Are you having tough time filling the hours during the summer holidays? A new peer reviewed paper about the life cycle emissions of nuclear district heating is out. The results are very encouraging.. Spoiler alert: Nuclear heat has the lowest emissions out there..

You know it is about time for midsummer (holidays) when the staff at the office gets too inspired about our recent activities in Sweden… Hyvää Juhannusta! Happy midsommer! - Steady Energy team

Check this video out! VTT's research professor Jaakko Leppänen on the potential of heat only SMRs in the heating sector.

Steady Energy and Kärnfull Next Partner for Sustainable Swedish District Heating Steady Energy and Swedish project developer Kärnfull Next today announced a strategic partnership to introduce small modular reactors (SMRs) for district heating in Sweden, expanding SMR production in the Nordic region.

Steady Energy was prominently featured in VTT's recent publication "Fully Possible Finland". The publication paints a refreshingly bright vision for Finland compared to the typical doom and gloom of the recent times. "In Europe, half of the overall energy consumption, including in industry, is used for heating. Most of the heat is produced with fossil fuels. Small modular reactors (SMRs) enable reaching almost 100 per cent efficiency in heat production without any greenhouse gas emissions" says Steady Energy's CEO Tommi Nyman in the report.

This week Steady Energy got its very first master’s thesis worker (diplomityöntekijä) - Joonatan Renko. He will be doing his thesis on nuclear safety design. Welcome aboard Joonatan 💪⚛️

Finnish Nuclear Start-up Steady Energy to Begin Construction of Small Modular Nuclear Pilot Plant Finnish technology company Steady Energy will commence construction of Finland’s first small modular nuclear (SMR) pilot plant in Finland next year, the first of its kind in Finland and one of the only few globally. The pilot will serve as a full-scale, operational model of the Finnish-designed SMR unit.