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First planned small nuclear reactor plant in the US has been canceled (arstechnica.com)

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First planned small nuclear reactor plant in the US has been canceled::NuScale and its primary partner give up on its first installation.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Nuclear power provides energy that is largely free of carbon emissions and can play a significant role in helping deal with climate change.

One hope for changing that has been the use of small, modular nuclear reactors, which can be built in a centralized production facility and then shipped to the site of their installation.

Their smaller size makes it easier for passive cooling systems to take over in the case of power losses (some designs simply keep their reactors in a pond).

The government's Idaho National Lab was working to help construct the first NuScale installation, the Carbon Free Power Project.

Under the plan, the national lab would maintain a few of the first reactors at the site, and a number of nearby utilities would purchase power from the remaining ones.

NuScale CEO John Hopkins tried to put a positive spin on the event, saying, "Our work with Carbon Free Power Project over the past ten years has advanced NuScale technology to the stage of commercial deployment; reaching that milestone is a tremendous success which we will continue to build on with future customers."

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