Designs / dsn-u-battery
U-Battery
High-temperature gas-cooled microreactor of 10 MWt and 4 MWe listed by the IAEA's 2020 SMR booklet (conceptual design). Urenco withdrew its support for the project in March 2023. This dated design profile does not establish current development, a deployment site or any regulatory permission.
Source snapshot: 2023-03-20 (edition or document date of the cited source). Source review does not establish current availability or a deployment.
- Class
- Microreactor
- Technology
- High-temperature gas-cooled reactor (HTGR)
- Coolant
- helium
- Spectrum
- thermal
- Developer / vendor(s) as of 2023-03-20
- Urenco
- Module electrical
- 4 MWe (nameplate (gross/net unspecified))
- Module thermal
- 10 MWth (nameplate_unspecified)
- Inclusion basis
- microreactor_labeled
- Confidence
- medium
- Last verified
- 2026-10-03
Tracked deployment projects
- U-Battery first-of-a-kind siting bid at Chalk River (2019-2023) — Siting · Canada