Cooperation between NCBJ (NOMATEN's home institution) and Synthos Green Energy in the area of ​​new generation nuclear reactors

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Warsaw, Otwock - Poland

Press release from the National Center for Nuclear Research

On February 4, 2022, the National Center for Nuclear Research (NCBJ) and Synthos Green Energy SA (SGE) signed a letter of intent on cooperation in the use of nuclear technology in industry and energy. The planned cooperation is related to the implementation by SGE of projects related to the construction of small modular light-water reactors (LW-SMR) for the production of electricity and possibly municipal heat and the construction of small modular high-temperature gas-cooled reactors (HTGR). The latter would be oriented towards cogeneration, i. e. industrial heat generation and hydrogen production.

NCBJ is the only center in Poland that operates the MARIA light-water research reactor and carries out research and development in the field of physics and reactor technology, including generation IV reactors, in particular the high-temperature gas-cooled reactor (HTGR). The intention of both parties is an initial analysis of potential opportunities, scopes and models of cooperation.

Synthos Green Energy (SGE) is a company dealing in the development of zero-emission technologies and the implementation of projects enabling the acquisition of affordable electricity and heat. SGE is currently implementing projects for the construction of small modular reactors (SMR and MMR), moreover, the company is focusing on investments in offshore wind farms and on working on solutions enabling the production of hydrogen from high-temperature steam. SGE is part of the largest private industrial group belonging to Michał Sołowow, a leading Polish private investor and industrialist.

National Center for Nuclear Research in Otwock (Świerk) is one of the largest research institutes in Poland, employing approx. 1,200 employees, including over 200 people with a doctoral degree, of which approx. 80 people have the status of independent research workers. The Institute conducts research and development and implementation works in the area related to the broadly understood subatomic physics, radiation physics, nuclear and plasma physics and technologies, material physics, devices for particle acceleration and detectors, the use of these devices in medicine and economy as well as research and production of radiopharmaceuticals.

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Cooperation between NCBJ (NOMATEN's home institution) and Synthos Green Energy in the area of ​​new generation nuclear reactors

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This project has received funding from the European Union Horizon 2020 research and innovation
programme under grant agreement No 857470 and from European Regional Development Fund
via Foundation for Polish Science International Research Agenda PLUS programme grant
No MAB PLUS/2018/8.
Poland
The project is co-financed from the state budget within the framework of the undertaking of the Minister of Science and Higher Education "Support for the activities of Centers of Excellence established under Horizon 2020".

Grant: 5 143 237,70 EUR
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Date of signing the funding agreement: December 2023

The purpose of the undertaking is to support entities of the higher education and science system that have received funding from the European Union budget in the competition H2020-WIDESPREAD-2018-2020/WIDESPREAD-01-2018-2019: Teaming Phase 2. in the preparation, implementation and updating of activities, maintenance of material resources necessary for carrying out activities, acquisition and modernization of scientific and research apparatus, maintenance and development of personnel potential necessary for the implementation of activities, and dissemination of the results of scientific activities.