A facility built to evaluate the design and performance of Babcock and Wilcox's mPower small modular reactor has now reached "full reactor operating pressure and temperature conditions."
Nuscale Power has partnered with NuHub - an economic development initiative in South Carolina - to pursue the deployment of a demonstration unit of its small modular reactor (SMR) at the Savannah River site.
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Russian leaders have affirmed the strategic and economic importance of nuclear technology to the country, announcing that spending will rise and a major development program will be accelerated.
NuScale Power has enlisted engineering company Curtiss-Wright to design the control rod drive mechanisms for its proposed small modular reactor (SMR)._47x48.jpg "Prism (GE-Hitachi) 47x48")
The University of Manchester is to provide expert input to GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy in its promotion of the use of Prism fast reactors to dispose of the UK's plutonium stocks.
Three major US nuclear utilities have joined an alliance formed by Westinghouse and Ameren to support the licensing and deployment of Westinghouse small modular reactor (SMR) technology.
Ameren Missouri and Westinghouse Electric Company are to collaborate to secure federal funding for the development and licensing of Westinghouse's Small Modular Reactor (SMR).