Small Modular Reactors

Nuclear energy summit offers hope of global regulatory co-operation

Mar 20, 2015

Nuclear energy chiefs will have a chance to thrash out key industry issues and work towards developing common standards of licensing process at a major meeting in April, which will...

Terrestrial Energy Announces Addition of Former President of Bechtel Nuclear to the International Advisory Board

Mar 19, 2015

MISSISSAUGA, CANADA – March 18, 2015 – Terrestrial Energy Inc. announces that it has appointed E. James Reinsch to its International Advisory Board.

SMRs: private investors call for track record and big government orders

Mar 3, 2015

The latest United States budget has earmarked $907.6m for nuclear energy research and development in advanced reactor and fuel cycle technologies as well as small modular reactor...

Terrestrial Energy Announces Addition of Former NRC Commissioner as Legal Counsel to the International Advisory Board

Feb 19, 2015

MISSISSAUGA, CANADA – February 18, 2015 – Terrestrial Energy Inc. (the “Company”) announces that it has appointed Jeffrey Merrifield as Legal Counsel to its International Advisory...

Intelligence Brief 4 – 18 February 2015

Feb 13, 2015

NuScale helical coil tube testing starts in Italy

Likely options for the UK Small Modular Reactor market

Feb 13, 2015

Attention SMR designers: the UK could be a significant market. We look at plausible timeframes for the UK to regain its nuclear power heritage with the deployment of SMRs.

Licensing process to catapult US-SMR export potential

Jan 28, 2015

The US small modular reactor (SMR) market is inching towards becoming a fully fledged part of the nuclear industry, the question is how can all this progress spur an SMR export market...

Washington task force will continue examining SMRs

Jan 2, 2015

In an effort to see where Washington state can decrease its carbon foot print and decrease its dependence on fossil fuels for household and business energy consumption, a task force...

TVA proceeds with SMR plan

Jan 2, 2015

Tennessee Valley Authority plans to move ahead with plans to develop an Oak Ridge site for a small modular reactor (SMR).

SMR: Young entrepreneur is on path to make nuclear fusion a hot commodity

Dec 5, 2014

Richard Dinan, a young and multi-sector entrepreneur explains how he hopes to create a prototype micro-fusion reactor through his start-up Applied Fusion Systems. Could big bang...

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