Sentences with phrase «says small modular reactors»

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«All the designs for small modular reactors eliminate the features in larger plants that can contribute to a potential accident,» he says.

Small modular reactors «becoming a reality are dependent on government and the nuclear industry,» said NRC commissioner William Ostendorff in a speech to the American Nuclear Society conference this past November.

«Several technical and manufacturing innovations make this reactor a potential game changer for the global clean energy market,» said Christofer Mowry, president and CEO at Babcock & Wilcox Modular Nuclear Energy, LLC, the new unit in charge of the small reactor.

There is almost no work going on in the United Kingdom on future alternative reactor designs, such as Generation IV reactors and small modular reactors and their associated fuel cycles, so Beddington's ad hoc board says the government should actively foster research in these areas.

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.

The governor of Argentina's north - western Formosa province has said that the prototype of the domestically designed CAREM small modular nuclear reactor will be deployed within the province.

«CNL is proud to extend this invitation to SMR project proponents from around the world, and to take one of the most important steps towards the successful deployment of a small modular reactor in Canada,» said CNL President and CEO Mark Lesinski.

«If we have a viable pathway at building nuclear power in smaller bites, the whole financing structure can change and make it much more affordable... If we can demonstrate let's say the first modular reactor in the early part of the next decade, then what we hope is it's part of the planning process in the middle of the next decade for our utilities.

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?

«You have to be very careful with small modular reactors,» he said, «to distinguish what goes in the near - term commercialization category and what continues to remain a concept in a laboratory someplace.