SMRs aren't immune to bad siting and bad operational decisions, but there have been some lessons learned by the industry. Safety concerns aren't why nuclear is ...

30 апр. 2024 г. · And in some cases, passive features can actually make accidents worse: for example, the NRC's review of the NuScale design revealed that passive ...

31 мая 2022 г. · The new study found that, because of their smaller size, small modular reactors will experience more neutron leakage than conventional reactors.

25 мар. 2024 г. · Worse, its first planned installation, in Utah, was cancelled last November when the initial cost blew out to USD$9 billion, corresponding to ...

29 мая 2024 г. · Things will go wrong, imperiling the chances for full recovery of any invested funds. State and federal governments should require that ...

“[It] used outdated design information for the energy capacity of the NuScale fuel design, wrong assumptions for the material used in the reactor reflector ...

18 янв. 2023 г. · The problem small modular reactors (SMRS) are attempting to address: nuclear projects go over budget and schedule, especially in recent decades in the west.

26 янв. 2024 г. · They cost many billions of dollars to build and needed a sizable and well-trained workforce to operate.

1 апр. 2024 г. · If separated plutonium were to fall into the wrong hands, the result would be nuclear proliferation—an increased number of nuclear weapons ...