Small Modular Reactors: Nuclear’s Big Opportunity in a Little Package
The American Society of Mechanical Engineers presents a free on-demand webinar on small modular reactors could be built in factories and shipped to wherever reliable low-emission electricity is needed.
The U.S. has nearly 100 nuclear reactors, and they are all big – and have a large capital cost, says the ASME on its website. But a new concept in nuclear power could make it easier to build and finance new reactors. Small modular reactors could be built and shipped for less cost than conventional large nuclear plants.
Jose N. Reyes, Chief Technology Officer at NuScale Power, and Paul Murphy, special counsel at Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy, discuss the technological, economic and regulatory promises and challenges regarding small nuclear reactors.
