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NewCube Energy briefs Montana House energy committee on high‑temperature microreactor and TRISO fuel
Summary
NewCube Energy representatives told the Montana House Energy, Federal Relations and Technology Committee about a transportable microreactor design aimed at remote communities and industrial heat, describing TRISO fuel, heat‑pipe cooling and a target deployment timeline in the early 2030s.
Lauren Young, program director for NewCube Energy, told the House Energy, Federal Relations and Technology Committee that NewCube is developing a transportable microreactor intended for remote communities and process‑heat applications.
The company, Young said, is incubated by Idealab and operates in Idaho Falls to leverage expertise at the Idaho National Laboratory. NewCube’s design is a microreactor in the 1–2 megawatt electric range (roughly 48 megawatts thermal in the company’s description) intended to produce very high temperatures — Young said the technology targets more than 1,000 degrees Celsius — to serve industrial process heat as well as electricity in locations now dependent on diesel generation.
NewCube described its use of TRISO‑type fuel and said the design can take advantage of high‑assay, low‑enriched uranium (HALU, up to about 19.75 percent enrichment)…
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