Sandro Baldi,
NUWARD Commercial Director
Our SMR solution: designed in Europe, for Europe and beyond
With NUWARD, EDF is leading the fight against climate change. We are helping our clients and partners build a resilient energy strategy. The simplicity and reliability of our NUWARD SMR solution will make safe and affordable nuclear power available anywhere in the world.
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NUWARD SMR, a low-carbon multi-energy platform.
It’s one of the greatest challenges of the 21st century: building a net zero future. All low-carbon energies must contribute to that goal.NUWARD, the EDF Group subsidiary, is developing a generation 3+ Pressurised water Reactor. Based on proven technology bricks, NUWARD SMR will provide unique value to the market.
Designed to deliver low-carbon competitive electricity and heat, NUWARD aims to become the first European multi-energy platform. Up to 400 MWe in power generation mode and up to 575 MWth in cogeneration mode. To energy-intensive industries, to data centres, to hydrogen plants, to seawater desalination units, to district heating network.
NUWARD SMR will be simple, modular, prefabricated. NUWARD SMR will be the first capable of recycling up to 96% of spent nuclear fuel.
Key features:
- 2 loops,
- 3 safety trains,
- 2 passive systems.
- 1 pressuriser,
- 2 steam generators,
- a reactor core
A reactor designed to operate with MOX fuel and enriched reprocessed uranium (ERU).
Functional modules preassembled and pre-tested in the factory. To optimise delay and
construction timeline. Modularity approach. 60% of traditionally on-site operations shifted to factory manufacturing for faster safer SMR delivery in just 48 months.
Built on over 60 years of EDF Group expertise. NUWARD will be the first SMR designed in Europe for Europe and export market.
A competitive solution for producing low-carbon electricity – and much more
To meet climate challenges, global production of decarbonised electricity must increase sevenfold to support the growing electrification of uses and replace existing fossil-fuel power plants. Added to this is a major issue: the decarbonisation of heat, 70% of which still comes from fossil sources in Europe.
Today, nuclear energy is a key driver of decarbonisation, energy security and economic development. It is in this context that NUWARD SMR builds on the proven technology of the GEN III+ Pressurised Water Reactor (PWR) to deliver competitive, low-carbon electricity and heat.
Thanks to nuclear cogeneration, NUWARD will:
- Support the energy transition of regions, complementing renewables.
- Enable new applications: hydrogen production, district heating and seawater desalination.
NUWARD SMR: a multi-energy platform
Thanks to its ability to cogenerate electricity and heat, NUWARD SMR is also designed to meet high energy-demand applications such as hydrogen production, district heating and seawater desalination.
NUWARD stands out in the SMR market with:
- A simple, modular and prefabricated product, with 60% of operations usually carried out on site moved to factory or workshop.
- A product deliverable within 4 years (48 months).
- A reactor with a thermal output of 1,150 MWth, convertible into up to 400 MWe and up to 575 MWth.
- A reactor that supplies competitive, stable, low-carbon electricity and heat.
- A product that addresses the technical, economic and environmental challenges of industrial clusters, data centres and high-energy consumers.
- A controlled fuel cycle with 96% recycling of spent fuel and a 25% reduction in natural uranium extraction, aiming to minimise the environmental impact of mining.