Small modular reactor

Carbon Emissions

Estonian Report Backs Nuclear's Climate Goals Potential

The Estonian government's Nuclear Energy Working Group has concluded that introducing nuclear energy to the country would help to meet climate goals and inc…

SMR

Nuscale SMR Meets Polish Safety Requirements, Says Regulator

NuScale Power's NPM-20 small modular reactor (SMR) technology is compliant with Polish nuclear safety and radiological protection standards, the president o…

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Hyundai, Kaeri Team Up for Export of Smart SMR

Hyundai Engineering and the Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI) have signed a memorandum of understanding to collaborate on the commercialisation and…

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ENEC Signs Multiple SMR MoUs

The company responsible for implementing the UAE's civil nuclear power programme has signed separate agreements with several small modular reactor (SMR) dev…

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Six SMR Power Plants Approved in Poland

Poland's Ministry of Climate and Environment has issued decisions-in-principle for the construction of power plants based on GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy's…

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Poland Approves Construction of SMR Nuclear Units at Six Sites

Poland has given the green light for the construction of 24 new small modular reactor (SMR) units across six sites, executives of the company that will build th…

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SMR Concept Project Presented to Mongolia by Rosatom

Russia has presented a concept for constructing a small modular reactor (SMR) in Mongolia, during a session on the sidelines of the UN's COP28 climate chang…

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ENEC to Evaluate Deployment of SMRs and Micro-Reactors

Following the launch of a programme aimed at leveraging its experience in successfully delivering a nuclear power plant project, the UAE's Emirates Nuclear …

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Palisades SMR Programme Is Under Way: Holtec

Holtec International says it will commission its first two SMR-300 small modular reactor units at the Michigan site by 2030, while it expects to restart the exi…

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ENEC, GE Hitachi Sign MoU for Future Investment in SMR Tech

Mohamed Ibrahim Al HammadiThe Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation (ENEC) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GE Hitac…

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Nuscale, Ornl to Assess SMR Use by Industry

NuScale Power and the US Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) are to collaborate on a techno-economic assessment (TEA), studying a Nu…

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Corporate Agreement Furthers Canadian SMR Collaboration

Ontario Power Generation subsidiary Laurentis Energy Partners (LEP) and Saskatchewan utility SaskPower have announced details of a Master Services Agreement tha…

Nuclear Technology

UK 'Should Emulate South Korea' on New Nuclear

The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Nuclear Energy report, Made in Britain: The Pathway to a Nuclear Renaissance, says multiple small modular reactor (SMR) uni…

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Illinois to Lift Moratorium on Nuclear Construction

Governor JB Pritzker has said he will sign a new bill lifting Illinois' ban on the construction of new nuclear reactors, after the state's lawmakers pas…

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Study to Consider SMR Deployment at Halden

A new company, Halden Kjernekraft AS, has been founded by Norsk Kjernekraft, Østfold Energi and the municipality of Halden to investigate the constructio…