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Rolls-Royce Small Modular Reactors
- credit_guy 4y agoI guess this was posted on HN due to the recent announcement of NuScale's SMR approval by the NRC. While I'm rooting for them and for nuclear energy in general, Rolls-Royce's SMR stretches a bit the concept of SMR. Their SMR is supposed to deliver 470 MW of electicity, which is close to what a full nuclear power reactor produces. For example there are lots of CANDU reactors around the world that produce 600 MW. NuScale's design is much smaller, about a tenth as large as RR's proposed design. The whole idea of SMR is that being small they can be build at a much lower cost, so 10 small SMR will cost much less than a reactor that is 10 times as large.