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Country: USA | Funding: $12M
Project Omega converts nuclear waste into betavoltaic batteries. The technology uses the same basic idea as solar photovoltaic cells, but with electrons from radiation instead of photons from the sun. The battery exploits a phenomenon known as betavoltaics, in which a semiconductor absorbs high-energy electrons, called β particles, that are ejected from decaying atomic nuclei. Energy from the β particles excites electrons in the semiconductor’s valence band into its conduction band, where a voltage can then carry the electrons off through a circuit to do useful work. The company has already created working prototype small battery running on strontium-90 decay that could power microprocessors in remote locations for years on end
Project Omega converts nuclear waste into betavoltaic batteries. The technology uses the same basic idea as solar photovoltaic cells, but with electrons from radiation instead of photons from the sun. The battery exploits a phenomenon known as betavoltaics, in which a semiconductor absorbs high-energy electrons, called β particles, that are ejected from decaying atomic nuclei. Energy from the β particles excites electrons in the semiconductor’s valence band into its conduction band, where a voltage can then carry the electrons off through a circuit to do useful work. The company has already created working prototype small battery running on strontium-90 decay that could power microprocessors in remote locations for years on end
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Country: France | Funding: €900M
Orano offers customers customized solutions for every stage of nuclear energy production: from mining, conversion, enrichment, reprocessing, logistics and engineering to decommissioning and dismantling. The company operates uranium mines in Canada, Kazakhstan and Niger and is one of the world's leading uranium producers. It's offering competitive production costs and advanced recovery technologies. In addition to mining, Orano carries out exploration and development projects in uranium-bearing zones, as well as the rehabilitation and modernization of former mines. Orano is also a world leader in uranium processing, ensuring its customers the efficient, safe and responsible management of spent nuclear fuel. By recovering 96% of recycled materials (95% uranium and 1% plutonium) from spent fuel Orano can reprocess the material and produce new fuel, such as mixed oxide fuel (MOX) for nuclear reactors.
Orano offers customers customized solutions for every stage of nuclear energy production: from mining, conversion, enrichment, reprocessing, logistics and engineering to decommissioning and dismantling. The company operates uranium mines in Canada, Kazakhstan and Niger and is one of the world's leading uranium producers. It's offering competitive production costs and advanced recovery technologies. In addition to mining, Orano carries out exploration and development projects in uranium-bearing zones, as well as the rehabilitation and modernization of former mines. Orano is also a world leader in uranium processing, ensuring its customers the efficient, safe and responsible management of spent nuclear fuel. By recovering 96% of recycled materials (95% uranium and 1% plutonium) from spent fuel Orano can reprocess the material and produce new fuel, such as mixed oxide fuel (MOX) for nuclear reactors.
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Country: France | Funding: $765.7M
Newcleo is developing the latest generation of nuclear reactors providing a path to combatting both climate change and existing nuclear waste. It is working on so-called Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) and wants to use so-called MOX technology to make it possible to recycle spent uranium from conventional nuclear power plants.
Newcleo is developing the latest generation of nuclear reactors providing a path to combatting both climate change and existing nuclear waste. It is working on so-called Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) and wants to use so-called MOX technology to make it possible to recycle spent uranium from conventional nuclear power plants.
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Country: USA | Funding: $306M
Oklo is building an always on, container-sized, truly carbon-free and emission-free nuclear generator. Oklo's reactors can convert used nuclear fuel into clean energy.
Oklo is building an always on, container-sized, truly carbon-free and emission-free nuclear generator. Oklo's reactors can convert used nuclear fuel into clean energy.
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Country: USA | Funding: $94.9M
Zeno is developing next-generation radioisotope power systems that generate carbon-free, resilient power for decades. It also has an Air Force contract to build a satellite powered by nuclear waste
Zeno is developing next-generation radioisotope power systems that generate carbon-free, resilient power for decades. It also has an Air Force contract to build a satellite powered by nuclear waste
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Country: USA | Funding: $55.6M
Innovative startup with an equitable and environmentally protective solution for nuclear waste and defense waste storage or disposal
Innovative startup with an equitable and environmentally protective solution for nuclear waste and defense waste storage or disposal
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Country: Netherlands | Funding: €42.5M
Molten salt reactor, recycling longlived elements from nuclear waste in collaboration with Orano
Molten salt reactor, recycling longlived elements from nuclear waste in collaboration with Orano
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Country: Switzerland | Funding: $43.5M
Transmutex develops technology designed to reduce the stockpile of nuclear waste-based energy.
Transmutex develops technology designed to reduce the stockpile of nuclear waste-based energy.
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Country: Japan | Funding: ¥6.1B
Ookuma Diamond Device is an advanced materials technology company that offers research and development of diamond semiconductors.
Ookuma Diamond Device is an advanced materials technology company that offers research and development of diamond semiconductors.
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Country: USA | Funding: $12.6M
Curio wants to solve the nuclear waste problem while also making valuable products out of the used fuel, including fuel for next generation reactors and isotopes valuable for space batteries and medical processes
Curio wants to solve the nuclear waste problem while also making valuable products out of the used fuel, including fuel for next generation reactors and isotopes valuable for space batteries and medical processes
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Country: USA | Funding: $5.5M
Transatomic Power is a nuclear reactor design company offering a waste-annihilating molten salt reactor.
Transatomic Power is a nuclear reactor design company offering a waste-annihilating molten salt reactor.
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Country: USA | Funding: $2.5M
FANCO was founded by a team of nuclear energy veterans led by Bill Stokes, who have implemented some of the most advanced nuclear projects in US history. Their expertise is the foundation of FANCO and sets it apart from startups chasing unproven ideas. Their 240 MW EAGL-1 reactor is a modular and reliable reactor based on proven low-pressure fast reactor technology, optimized for modern energy needs. It uses safe and environmentally friendly lead-bismuth coolant and operates in the fast neutron spectrum, extracting more energy from fuel and reducing waste for a cleaner future. The EAGL-1's optimized design eliminates the need for expensive intermediate systems and containment vessels, reduces mechanical complexity, and improves overall system reliability. That means the potential for faster deployment and dramatically lower front-end fuel cycle costs. FANCO is building its own Nuclear Plant Powered by Its Own Waste in Indiana.
FANCO was founded by a team of nuclear energy veterans led by Bill Stokes, who have implemented some of the most advanced nuclear projects in US history. Their expertise is the foundation of FANCO and sets it apart from startups chasing unproven ideas. Their 240 MW EAGL-1 reactor is a modular and reliable reactor based on proven low-pressure fast reactor technology, optimized for modern energy needs. It uses safe and environmentally friendly lead-bismuth coolant and operates in the fast neutron spectrum, extracting more energy from fuel and reducing waste for a cleaner future. The EAGL-1's optimized design eliminates the need for expensive intermediate systems and containment vessels, reduces mechanical complexity, and improves overall system reliability. That means the potential for faster deployment and dramatically lower front-end fuel cycle costs. FANCO is building its own Nuclear Plant Powered by Its Own Waste in Indiana.
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Country: USA | Funding: $113.5K
Alpha Nur is closing the loop on how nuclear fuel is used. At the intersection of sustainability and national security, we stand as a nexus for next-gen nuclear development.
Alpha Nur is closing the loop on how nuclear fuel is used. At the intersection of sustainability and national security, we stand as a nexus for next-gen nuclear development.
