Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) represent great promise for the nuclear energy industry as the long-awaited solution to lower capital costs, ‘walk-away’ safe characteristics and easier siting decisions. But early November 2023, NuScale Power terminated their project to build the first pilot six-module SMR power plant near Idaho Falls in the USA. Is this the end of the nuclear renaissance? Do other lesser-known innovations in nuclear technology have the ultimate potential in an increasingly contested space for high energy security with zero emissions?
Join MIT Tepco chair and Director of the MIT Center for Advanced Nuclear Energy Systems, Professor Jacopo Buongiorno, in conversation with Associate Professor Edward Obbard, Interim Director of the UNSW Nuclear Innovation Centre, to find out what this means for the future of nuclear energy worldwide.
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31 янв 2024
