Sentences with phrase «standardized reactor designs»

The nuclear industry has embraced this strategy with the development of small modular reactors, or SMRs, because downsizing and standardizing the reactor design can significantly reduce complexity.

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But potential reactor builders sense that the world has changed enough to consider going back into business, with designs that are optimized and standardized versions of what they built more than 20 years ago.

Separately, the newer rules from the NRC on advanced reactors standardize the licensing, providing early site approval, certification of plant designs by rule (avoiding the lengthy public hearings for each plant), and simultaneous issuances of both a construction permit and an operating license (a «one - stop licensing called «combined licenses».)

Studies show that standardized designs, multiple reactors on one site, and a vertically integrated builder were the keys to declines in the cost of building nuclear power plants in France and Korea.

The economics of nuclear power in a mass - production model like what HPG has proposed are radically better — France and Japan have relatively inexpensive and reliable nuclear reactors precisely becuase they developed a couple of standardized designs and then deployed them widely, working out the bugs in the process.