The Kemper facility is the world's first full - scale coal - fired power plant designed for carbon capture. (scientificamerican.com)
In a major step toward the deployment of the next generation of advanced nuclear technology, NuScale Power asked the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) on December 31, 2016 to approve the company's SMR commercial power plant design. (nuscalepower.com)
The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission is currently involved in pre-licensing vendor design reviews - an optional service to assess of a nuclear power plant design based on a vendor's reactor technology - for ten small reactors with capacities in the range of 3 - 300 MWe. (world-nuclear-news.org)