Sentences with phrase «do small modular reactors»
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The one possible turn in the otherwise rough road in the West could be a shift in technology toward small, modular reactors (SMRs), which U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) Secretary Ernest Moniz said could be deployed as soon as 2022 with his agency's support.
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Response: SMR - 160 is a small modular pressurized water nuclear reactor power plant that does not rely on any pumps or motors to remove heat from the nuclear fuel, for all normal and accident scenarios.
Plan B in the unlikely event that high temperature, fast neutron, small modular reactors don't pan out.
And if the evolutionary approach does lower the risk of a given small modular reactor, who can say whether reduced risks in individual power plants are outweighed by an overall global risk of dispersing a much greater number of nuclear reactors across the planet?