OUR MORAL AND SCIENTIFIC IMPERATIVE TO BRING A NEW APPROACH TO NUCLEAR ENERGY
Our co-founder and CEO Stefano Buono has spent his professional life bringing innovation to the nuclear field.
Launched in September 2021, newcleo is a disruptor in the field of nuclear energy.
We are working towards generating safe, clean and sustainable nuclear energy, combining existing accessible technologies at competitive costs.
Under the leadership of our visionary co-founders and senior team, we are aiming to build a new industrial standard in nuclear energy with the best possible safety and sustainability levels.
Our co-founder and CEO Stefano Buono has spent his professional life bringing innovation to the nuclear field.
We are working on developing the latest generation of nuclear reactors providing a path to combatting both climate change and existing nuclear waste.
September 2021 was the starting point of our company history, but our long term vision is based on combining technologies that have been in existence for many years.
Our non-nuclear electrically-heated prototype will allow us to thoroughly test our solutions for the well-known challenges related to liquid metal and in particular lead.
This important work is being carried out in collaboration with ENEA, and the prototype will be built at the Brasimone site, Italy.
With this mini reactor we are addressing the maritime propulsion market and the small nuclear installations market: designed to work for 15 years without refuelling or maintenance.
At the end of the reactor life, it will be simply replaced and the fuel will be reprocessed.
All the previous steps and designs also serve a further goal:
to design and commercialise the ADS, a concept proposed by Nobel laureate Carlo Rubbia. This consists of a subcritical (not self-sustained) LFR coupled with a particle accelerator, enabling a thorium-based fuel cycle and the ultimate conditions for complete safety.
Our Mission, Vision, Purpose and Values have been developed to show how our company and our team aim to work together every day as we progress on our exciting journey