Lincoln signs Collaboration Agreement for Kookaburra Graphite Project

Highlights

  • Lincoln and SCN Canada Inc (SCN) have signed a Collaboration Agreement to jointly identify opportunities to use graphite from Lincoln’s Kookaburra Project in SA in small modular nuclear reactors.
  • SCN, trading as StarCore Nuclear, is designing and optimising small modular reactors (SMRs) using high-temperature gas-cooled reactor (HTGR) technology.
  • SCN plans to provide small-scale, safe, affordable, and carbon-free energy production in remote communities throughout Canada and the world.
  • High-purity graphite blocks are used in SMRs to slow the nuclear reaction to a steady, controlled level which makes the system more stable and safer for longer term operation.
  • The collaboration aligns with Lincoln’s strategy to identify high-value uses for graphite from its Kookaburra Project, a 12.8 million tonne resource at 7.56% TGC1.
  • The Agreement sets out the proposed joint scope of work for SCN and Lincoln Minerals to undertake as they investigate a potential agreement for the use of Lincoln graphite in SMRs.

Read Lincoln Minerals’ full press release here.

 

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