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 an innovator 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.
This will meet the commercial demand for small electric generating units. SMRs can be plant manufactured – reducing cost and accelerating the commissioning.
At the same time, we will directly invest in a MOX plant to fuel our reactors.
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.
In order to avoid mining and to burn existing waste from the current nuclear industry, newcleo is aiming to establish MOX (Mixed Pu-U Oxides) fuel manufacturing: advantages include the ability to extract energy from the current nuclear industry waste, and to support energy independence.
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
We show our commitment to nuclear promotion and advancement also by joining industry organisations.
