Nuclear-powered carbon capture technology project in the UK

A UK-based consortium has reported that nuclear power plants (NPPs) could provide the heat necessary to enable a technology to capture carbon dioxide directly from the atmosphere (an approach known as ‘direct air capture’ or DAC, for short). The consortium comprised EDF Sizewell C (a UK subsidiary of the French EDF group and holder of 20% of the proposed Sizewell C NPP project), UK company Strata Technology, the University of Nottingham (in England), Doosan Babcock (a UK subsidiary of the South …