Position Statement #25 - Small Modular Reactors

Department of Energy have statement, small modular reactors (SMRs) are defined as advanced recognized the need for public-private partnerships to share in light water reactors (LWRs) with power outputs of 300 MWe or less the costs and risks of the demonstration of first-of-a-kind SMR per module. [...] support will reduce the economic, technical, and other barriers to enable efficient and timely deployment of economically viable The smaller size of SMRs means that a greater fraction of SMRs. [...] Factory fabrication offers flexibility in addition to reliability, and therefore are able to load- an opportunity for more automation to achieve high quality with follow intermittent renewable generation and support even more repeatability, which leads to improved standardization and lower clean energy on the grid. [...] capability will offer the export market a reactor sized to suit the SMRs are operationally similar to currently operating reactors needs of developing counties, enhance global competitiveness, and and would rely on fuel designs that are in use today. [...] policies necessary to enable deployment of first-of-a-kind SMRs, The small size and modular nature of SMRs means that deployment leading to broad use of standardized reactors in the United States can be tailored to electricity demand changes.