Nuqleon Research Ltd.

NQ150 – Next Generation Lead-Cooled Fast Reactors

The NQ150 is a highly compact derivative of the ENHS (Encapsulated Nuclear Heat Source) reactor. The ENHS conceptual design was a pioneering initiative led by Ehud Greenspan, Professor at the University of California, Berkeley (UCB), and carried out during the 2000s by a multi-institutional team of dozens of researchers from:

• UC Berkeley Nuclear Engineering Department
• Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) – the USDOE laboratory leading fast reactors R&D
• Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
• Westinghouse Electric Corporation - the company that designed and manufactured the largest number of nuclear power reactors currently operating in the USA.

They were joined by researchers from several research institutions in South Korea, Japan, and Italy. This project resulted in one of the first ever Lead-cooled Fast Reactor (LFR) designs, a true breakthrough in nuclear innovation.

At Nuqleon Research we are taking this cutting-edge technology to the next level with an upgraded version of the ENHS, referred to as the NQ150, a commercially optimized version that, relative to the original ENHS, features:

• Higher power output – 150 MWe (vs. 50 MWe of the ENHS)
• Significantly smaller volume and hence,
• Nearly an order of magnitude higher power density.
• Higher thermodynamic efficiency
• Shorter construction time
• Significantly lower capital investment and lower cost of electricity