Small modular reactors

Sweden

Application submitted for Swedish SMR plant

Kärnfull Next has submitted an application to build a power plant based on small modular reactors in the municipality of Valdemarsvik in Östergöt…

SMR

X-energy, Talen to assess deployment of multiple SMR plants

US advanced nuclear technology developer X-energy Reactor Company has signed a Letter of Intent with Talen Energy Corporation to assess deploying X-energy's…

South Korea's Doosan Enerbility to Build Small Modular Nuclear Reactor Manufacturing Plant

South Korea's Doosan Enerbility plans to construct a dedicated manufacturing plant for small modular reactors (SMRs). According to Korea's Business Kore…

SMR

Samsung Wins Approval for Floating SMR

Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) has developed a conceptual design for a floating offshore nuclear power platform that can accommodate various small modular react…

Nuclear Reactor

US to Provide up to $800 Million to Support Small Reactors

The U.S. Department of Energy announced on Tuesday that it will provide up to $800 million in funding to advance the development of small modular reactors (SMRs…

SMR

EDF Aims to Produce 30 Small Modular Reactors by 2050, Design Planned for 2026

State-owned French energy group EDF plans to complete the conceptual design of its small modular reactor (SMR) next year, as it seeks to expand its presence in …

SMR

Ukraine Developing Roadmap for New SMR Capacity

Ukraine has taken significant steps toward implementing small modular reactors (SMRs) with the presentation of a draft law and the formation of a working group …

SMR

Blykalla, ABB Expand Cooperation Into Maritime Applications

Swedish nuclear technology developer Blykalla and global engineering company ABB have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to accelerate the use of lead-c…

SMR

X-Energy, Amazon, KHNP and Doosan Enter MoU for SMRs Deployment

On August 25, X-energy Reactor Company, Amazon, Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power (KHNP), and Doosan Enerbility signed a memorandum of understanding in Washington, D.…

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Hungary Looking at Deployment of BWRX-300s

Hungarian nuclear energy development firm Hunatom, part of the Paks II Group, has entered into a letter of intent with Poland’s Synthos Green Energy to ex…

SMR

OPG, OSGE Enhance Cooperation on SMR Deployment in Poland

Poland’s Orlen Synthos Green Energy (OSGE) and Canada’s Ontario Power Generation (OPG) have signed a letter of intent in Warsaw to establish a frame…

SMR

Rolls-Royce SMR Named as UK’s Selected Technology

Rolls-Royce SMR has been chosen as the preferred bidder to develop the UK’s first small modular reactors (SMRs) following a two-year competition managed b…

Nuclear Power Plant (NPP)

Assessment Begins for First Norwegian NPP

The Norwegian government has taken a significant step toward exploring nuclear energy by commissioning an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) programme for a …

SMR

Tenders Submitted in UK SMR Selection Process

Great British Nuclear (GBN) continues its selection process for small modular reactors (SMRs), with GE Hitachi and Rolls-Royce SMR confirming they have submitte…

SMR

Proposal for Norwegian SMR Power Plant Progresses

In November 2023, Norsk Kjernekraft proposed constructing a power plant with multiple small modular reactors (SMRs) in Norway’s Taftøy industrial p…