Newcleo and Danieli to explore nuclear-powered green steel production

The agreement reached by Newcleo and Danieli lays the groundwork to decarbonise steel production through combined electricity and heat from nuclear energy.

The integration of Newcleo Lead-cooled Fast Reactors -LFR with Danieli’s steelmaking technology will make a further step in combining the production of green steel with nuclear energy production.

LFR capability to provide a combination of electricity and high-temperature thermal energy will be a focus of development for Danieli processes for green steel production, such as Danieli Digimelter to competitively melt metallics, and the production of green hydrogen to power Energiron direct reduction plants for ore pellet processing, and use of Danieli hydrogen burners among the others.

The understanding comes at a defining moment for the European steelmaking and manufacturing industry as demonstrated by the EU Commission’s Strategic Dialogue on the Future of the Steel sector and the Clean Industrial Deal adopted in February, where the EU Commission took bold action to help energy intensive industries lower their energy costs while also creating markets for low carbon and pledging over €100 billion in support of EU-made clean manufacturing.

Attached to this NewsFlash the full press release issued on March 10.