Key Environmental Attributes
- Completely emissions free, reliable energy source in all weather conditions and temperatures
- Eliminates risk from costly or seasonal diesel fuel supply
- Requires no water for cooling or operation
- Above ground installation requires minimum ground disruption with around 2 acre footprint
- Spent fuel returned to manufacturer or DGR long-term storage and never stored on site
- Seamless pairing with wind, solar and hydro
- Each eVinci® microreactor will reduce up to 55,000 tonnes of CO2/year
- Transportability in shipping containers allows for easy and quick deployment, scalability and removal
Enabling Sustainable Economic Development and Job Creation:
- Making clean and affordable heat and power available for every community and industry
- Reliable energy ensures community wellbeing, safety and opportunity for electrification
- Heat by-product may be captured for district energy, water purification, greenhouses and many other applications
- High grade process heat can be used for industrial, resource-based applications and H2 generation
- Capable of supporting research and academic advancement
eVinci® Deployment Applications
Safe, Reliable Technology
The Westinghouse Solution
The eVinci® microreactor's innovative design combines new technologies with 60+ years of commercial nuclear design and engineering and creates a cost competitive and resilient source of power with superior reliability and minimal maintenance. Its small size allows for transportability and rapid, on-site deployment in contrast to plants requiring large amounts of construction. eVinci® can produce 5MWe with a 15MWth core design. The reactor core is designed to run for eight or more full power years before refueling.
Heat Pipe Innovation
The key benefits of the eVinci® microreactor are attributed to its advanced heat pipe technology. The heat pipes enable high-temperature, passive-heat transfer, eliminating the complexity of a forced flow reactor coolant system.
The heat pipes passively transfer heat with high efficiency, eliminating the need for high pressure operation. Few moving parts and low pressures make the eVinci® microreactor a highly reliable system requiring very little maintenance.
Westinghouse has decades of nuclear instrumentation and control experience that supports safe and automatic eVinci® microreactor operation while including remote monitoring.
eVinci® Microreactor Site Layout
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