Small modular reactor

Nuclear Reactor

Private Sector Investment Essential for SMR Deployment, Indian Think-Tank Says

Successful deployment of small modular reactor (SMR) technology must leverage private sector investment, a new report by the Indian government's NITI Aayog …

Nuclear Power Plant (NPP)

US Supports Opening of Nuscale’s Energy Exploration Centre in Romania

Romanian nuclear utility SN Nuclearelectrica (SNN) and the Polytechnic University of Bucharest (UPB) have launched a NuScale Power Energy Exploration Centre (E2…

Nuclear Power Plant (NPP)

SMR Proposed for Former Welsh NPP Site

Cwmni Egino, the company proposing to develop the former nuclear power station in Trawsfynydd in Wales, says it has completed its first phase of development wor…

Nuclear Power Plant (NPP)

Nuscale SMR Simulator Opens in Romania

The first simulator for the control room of a NuScale VOYGR small modular reactor (SMR) power plant in Europe has opened at the University Politehnica of Buchar…

Nuclear Power Plant (NPP)

In Quotes: Nuward’s Renaud Crassous on SMR Plans

In an interview for the World Nuclear News podcast, the President and CEO of Nuward, Renaud Crassous, explained EDF's decision to set up a wholly-owned subs…

SMR

SMR Shows Promise for Campus Use, Study Finds

An ongoing study of the feasibility of using advanced nuclear reactors to power Purdue University's West Lafayette campus in Indiana has found small modular…

SMR

Dow’s Seadrift Site Selected for X-Energy SMR Project

Dow has selected its UCC Seadrift Operations manufacturing site in Texas for its proposed advanced small modular reactor (SMR) project with X-Energy Reactor Com…

SMR

Korea Considers Deployment of Nuscale SMR for Hydrogen Production

Private power generation company GS Energy has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Uljin County in North Gyeongsang Province, South Korea, to consid…

SMR

Doosan Starts Forging Components for Nuscale SMR

South Korea's Doosan Enerbility has begun the forging production process for the first module that will be deployed as part of a NuScale VOYGR-6 small modul…

Nuclear Technology

Westinghouse Unveils SMR Version of AP1000

Rendering of a Westinghouse AP300 plant. (Image: Westinghouse)At a virtual press conference this morning, Westinghouse Electric Company president and chief exec…

SMR

Poland’s Orlen Synthos Green Energy Seeks Formal Approval for SMR Sites

Poland’s Orlen Synthos Green Energy (OSGE) has applied to the Ministry of Climate & Environment for a fundamental decision for six NPPs with BWRX-300 smal…

SMR

OSGE Seeks Approval for SMRs at Six Polish Locations

Orlen Synthos Green Energy (OSGE) has submitted applications to Poland's Ministry of Climate for a decision-in-principle on the construction of power plants…

Nuclear Reactor

Expansion of US-Korean Cooperation on SMRs

Agreements to cooperate on small modular reactors (SMRs) have been signed between South Korean and US companies during a visit by Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol…

Nuclear Power Plant (NPP)

Holtec Inks Agreement for up to 20 SMRs in Ukraine

Kris Singh (front left), Holtec International president and chief executive officer, signs the cooperation agreement between Holtec and Ukraine’s Energoat…

United States

More US Money for Polish SMR Plans

The US Export-Import Bank and US International Development Finance Corporation (IDFC) may lend up to $4bn to Orlen Synthos Green Energy’s project to deplo…