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One of the facilities - to be built over the next two years - will model passive decay heat removal of the LDR-50 district heating reactor developed by the Finnish company Steady Energy. The other facility will test the functionality of the emergency core cooling tank of an undisclosed small modular reactor (SMR) based on French technology.
The tests will take place from 2026-2027 and the results will be reported in 2027–2028, Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology (LUT) said.
"The research kicking off at LUT University will significantly advance the development of nuclear technology and our ongoing district heating projects," said Lauri Muranen, head of public affairs at Steady Energy. "The commercial breakthrough of small modular reactors is closer in heating than in electricity production, because small nuclear power plants producing district heating do not need public financing."
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