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RICHLAND, Wash. As the Clean Energy Transformation Act drives Washington state toward carbon-free electricity, a new energy landscape is taking shape. Alongside renewable energy sources, a new report finds small modular reactors are poised to play an integral role in the state s emerging clean energy future.
The technology could help fill a power source gap soon to be left by carbon-emitting resources like coal and natural gas, which will be phased out in coming years, according to a report composed by researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Nuclear energy is a reliable source of baseload electricity, said PNNL s manager for nuclear power systems Ali Zbib, who coauthored the report, and our findings show that advanced small modular reactors could be economically competitive in a future carbon-free electricity sector. They re well-suited to play an important role in an energy market
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Small Modular Reactors Competitive in Washington’s Clean Energy Future
RICHLAND, Wash.-As the Clean Energy Transformation Act drives Washington state toward carbon-free electricity, a new energy landscape is taking shape. Alongside renewable energy sources, a new report finds small modular reactors are poised to play an integral role in the state’s emerging clean energy future.
The technology could help fill a power source gap soon to be left by carbon-emitting resources like coal and natural gas, which will be phased out in coming years, according to a report composed by researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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NuScale Exploring Marine-Deployed SMR Power Plant
NuScale Power and Prodigy Clean Energy, a Canadian designer of small modular reactor (SMR) marine power stations, have completed the conceptual design and economic assessment phases of a potential “marine-deployed” NuScale Power module (NPM) nuclear power plant.
Building on an August 2018 memorandum of understanding (MoU) in which the companies set out t
o investigate the technical and economic feasibility of integrating the NPM into Prodigy’s Marine Power Stations, the companies are now working together, under a new MoU signed on May 14, to support business development opportunities “to engage customers and develop demonstration and commercial opportunities internationally.” The MoU envisions an SMR power plant that cou