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By A.J. Roan
For Metal Tech News 

Mini-reactors join renewable energy race

Small modular reactor offers safer, more affordable nuclear Metal Tech News Weekly Edition – April 29, 2020

 

Last updated 7/10/2022 at 2:33pm

Truck hauls small nuclear reactor module SMR for delivery to electric plant site

Nuscale Power

Small modular reactors can be built at a manufacturing facility and then delivered to final destinations, which reduces construction costs and increases safety.

Global interest has begun for recent development in the renewable energy race with an unlikely contender – miniaturized nuclear reactors.

This relatively new nuclear reactor design, known as a small modular reactor, or SMR, is based off already well-established nuclear technology principles, providing a new direction for companies seeking to create smaller, more strategically located mini-re...



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