Nuclear Teplator from CTU aims to serve Ukrainian city of Slavutych in future

The Czech Teplator project, which uses nuclear energy to produce heat, could be used first in the future by the northern Ukrainian city of Slavutych. Today, World ThermoExport signed an agreement with Ukrainian partners for the future purchase of the technology, which is being developed by scientists from the Czech Technical University in Prague (CTU). Project representatives said this at a press conference in Prague today. The agreement signed today provides for delivery after the war in Ukraine ends and after the technology licensing process is completed.

The project to create a small modular reactor that would serve as a nuclear source of low-cost district heating was launched more than six years ago. It is being developed by scientists led by Radek Škoda at the Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics at CTU in Prague.

The city of Slavutych is connected to a district heating system, making it ideal for the Teplator, according to the project’s developers. The city was built between 1986 and 1988, shortly after the Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident, as a new home for residents of the evacuated city of Pripyat. Slavutych currently has about 27.000 inhabitants.