It’s a green light for next-generation nuclear power plants.
An artist’s rendering of NuScale Power’s small modular nuclear reactor plant.For the first time, the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission has certified a design for an advanced small modular reactor . The certification allows utilities to choose the advanced reactor design when applying for a license to build and operate a new power plant.
“SMRs are no longer an abstract concept,” Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy Kathryn Huff said in aWhether these advanced reactors can overcome challenges that traditional nuclear power plants have faced remains an open question. There are still years of testing and research to come. The design certified by the NRC is about a third of the size of a traditional reactor and is based on a concept developed at Oregon State University in the 2000s. Since 2014, the Department of Energy has given more than $600 million to the company that grew out of that research project, NuScale Power, and similar advanced reactor concepts to mature the technology.
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