A transatlantic partnership
WHEN NUCLEAR MEETS
COGENERATION
Coupling two existing mature technologies
The European Nuclear Cogeneration Industrial Initiative (NC2I) and the US Next Generation Nuclear Plant (NGNP) Industrial Alliance have been collaborating since 2014 on the design and regulatory framework of the first modern commercial High Temperature Gas-cooled Reactor (HTGR).
From 2017 to 2020, NC2I and NGNP carried out the GEMINI+ project together with an international consortium to demonstrate high temperature nuclear cogeneration with HTGR technology.
In continuity of the GEMINI+ project, the GEMINI 4.0 project was launched in June 2022 to demonstrate that the GEMINI+ system can provide a global solution for the competitive and safe decarbonisation of industrial activities.
An international agreement
An industrial application
A safe technology
EU projects
The GEMINI Initiative
GEMINI is a transatlantic partnership for which Europe and the US are mutualising their resources and efforts to accelerate the development of HTGRs.
Latest news
A couple of words from the coordinator.
In November 2024, in Petten (The Netherlands), I reconvened the GEMINI 4.0 consortium to share the progress made toward ...
Read moreGEMINI 4.0 Summer School 2024: Uniting Industry and Academia on High-Temperature Gas-Cooled Reactor (HTGR) Technology
GEMINI 4.0 Summer School 2024: Uniting Industry and Academia on High-Temperature Gas-Cooled Reactor (HTGR) Technology. ...
Read moreThe GEMINI 4.0 Summer School programme is out.
The agenda to the Summer School in September, has now been finalised. The GEMINI 4.0 partners are looking forward to ...
Read moreThe registration to the GEMINI 4.0 Summer School has been extended to the 17th June 2024.
The deadline to submit your applications to our Summer School has been extended to the 17th of June 2024. Don’t ...
Read moreThe GEMINI 4.0. partners gathered in Warsaw for the General Assembly 2023
On the 19th and 20th of September, the GEMINI 4.0. project held its first General Assembly (GA), an annual gathering of ...
Read moreGEMINI 4.0 participated in the SNETP Forum 2023 in Gothenburg, Sweden.
Reflecting on our participation in the annual SNETP 2023 Forum, which took place in Gothenburg, Sweden from the 15th ...
Read moreFramatome and Ultra Safe Nuclear to Form a Joint Venture to Manufacture TRISO and FCM Fuel
Press release originally issued by Framatome. Framatome and Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation (USNC) intend to form a ...
Read moreMapped: Carbon Dioxide Emissions Around the World
Article originally posted by Adam Symington on Visual Capitalist. According to Our World in Data, the global population ...
Read moreCalendar of events
COMING SOON
Resources
GEMINI Vision Document
In December 2014 NC2I and the NGNP Industry Alliance published a Vision Document on the GEMINI initiative. It set the basis for a successful transatlantic partnership to accelerate the development of improved, intrinsically safe and versatile nuclear energy technology.
Focus on
EUROPAIRS project
EUROPAIRS was a European FP7 project, which set the foundations for the establishment of NC2I. It defined the boundary operational conditions for nuclear cogeneration and established a technical roadmap for the timely development and demonstration of HTRs.
Who we are
Nuclear Cogeneration Industrial Initiative (NC2I)
Established in 2011 as one of the three pillars of the European Sustainable Nuclear Energy Technology Platform (SNETP), the European Nuclear Cogeneration Industrial Initiative (NC2I) aims to demonstrate an innovative and competitive energy solution for the low-carbon generation of heat and electricity produced by nuclear energy. NC2I counts 9 members: AGH University, AREVA, Centrum vyzkumu Rez (CVR), Fortum, JRC, NCBJ, NRG, Preussen Elektra and Prochem.
NGNP Industry Alliance
Created in response to the 2005 US Energy Policy Act, the Next Generation Nuclear Plant (NGNP) Industry Alliance is an international consortium promoting the development of a commercial HTGR technology. It gathers industry-leading members including potential end-users, nuclear operators, industrial suppliers and nuclear technology companies: AREVA, Dow Chemical Company, Petroleum Technology Alliance Canada, Westinghouse Electric Company…