A small
nuclear fuel inventory, since each 50 MWe (gross) NuScale Power Module houses approximately 5 % of the nuclear fuel of a conventional 1,000 MWe nuclear reactor.
Not exact matches
The breached reactor would then spew «16 percent of the core
inventory» — «
inventory» meaning cesium 137, along with 68 other radioactive isotopes in the hot
nuclear fuel.
SMR - 160 is the only
nuclear power plant in the world — operating or proposed — to both limit the spent
fuel volume to such a small
inventory and protect it with the containment, while assuring unlimited cooling.