Engineering firm Laing O’Rourke has joined the British consortium spearheading the development of small nuclear power plants which could provide a much-needed boost to the UK’s energy supplies. The consortium is hoping to win UK government funding for its innovative plants, known as small modular reactors (SMRs). The Rolls-Royce led venture also includes Amec Foster Wheeler, Arup, Nuvia and the Nuclear Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre. Rolls-Royce has come up with a modular concept that allows for factory manufacture and speedy installation of the planned plants. The reactors are about the size of the O2 and could power a city the size of Leeds.
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The USA’s Holtec International has signed a teaming agreement with Canada’s SNC-Lavalin to collaborate in the development of Holtec’s SMR-160 small modular reactor (SMR).
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The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has concluded that the highly integrated protection system (HIPS) platform developed for NuScale Power’s small modular reactor is acceptable for use in plant safety-related instrumentation and control systems.
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