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US-based NuScale Power has joined the Romanian Atomic Forum (Romatom) as a supporting member to champion the association’s nuclear energy goals. Romania aims to be the first country in Europe to deploy a NuScale VOYGR small modular reactor (SMR) power plant. John Hopkins, NuScale President & CEO, said NuScale was “committed to advancing the secure deployment of SMRs globally”.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 26 May 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsnuscale-power-joins-romanian-atomic-forum-10884712
Aim is to deploy nuclear plant on Indonesian island for ammonia production
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Tuesday, 23 May 2023
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/danish-companies-sign-agreement-for-usd4-billion-thorium-smr-in-borneo-5-1-2023
Funding of up to USD275 million to advance the deployment of a NuScale Power Corporation VOYGR small modular reactor (SMR) plant in Romania was announced at the G7 leaders' summit by the USA and "multinational public-private partners" from Japan, South Korea and the United Arab Emirates.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Tuesday, 23 May 2023
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/NuScale-s-Romanian-SMR-plan-gets-USD275-million-bo
US-based NuScale Power Corporation and Nucor Corporation (Nucor) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to explore co-locating NuScale’s VOYGR small modular nuclear reactor (SMR) power plants to provide power to Nucor’s scrap-based Electric Arc Furnace (EAF) steel mills. An expanded manufacturing partnership will also be considered, whereby Nucor will supply, its net-zero steel Econiq products, for NuScale projects.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 19 May 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsnucor-considers-deploying-nuscale-smrs-at-arc-furnace-steel-mills-10862177
Romanian nuclear utility SN Nuclearelectrica (SNN) and the Polytechnic University of Bucharest (UPB) have launched a NuScale Power Energy Exploration Centre (E2 Centre) at the University’s Faculty of Energy Engineering. It includes a control room simulator for NuScale’s VOYGR small modular reactor (SMR) power plant. It is the first E2 Centre to be established outside the USA. The first E2 Centre was opened at Oregon State University in 2020.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Thursday, 18 May 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsus-supports-opening-of-nuscales-energy-exploration-centre-in-romania-10858705
NuScale Power has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with North American steel manufacturer Nucor Corporation to explore the deployment of NuScale's VOYGR small modular nuclear reactor (SMR) power plants at Nucor's scrap-based Electric Arc Furnace (EAF) steel mills.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Wednesday, 17 May 2023
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Steel-maker-considers-use-of-NuScale-SMRs-at-its-m
The first simulator for the control room of a NuScale VOYGR small modular reactor (SMR) power plant in Europe has opened at the University Politehnica of Bucharest in Romania. The simulator is the fifth in total, but the first outside the USA.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Tuesday, 16 May 2023
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/NuScale-SMR-simulator-opens-in-Romania
Korean private company GS Energy has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Uljin County in North Gyeongsang Province, South Korea, to consider the use of NuScale Power's small modular reactor (SMR) technology to provide heat and power to the planned Uljin Nuclear Hydrogen National Industrial Complex (UNHNIC).
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 12 May 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newskorea-looks-to-deploy-nuscale-smr-for-hydrogen-project-10838955
South Korea's Doosan Enerbility has begun forging the first module that will be deployed as part of a NuScale VOYGR-6 small modular reactor (SMR) power plant for the Carbon Free Power Project (CFPP) in the USA. "The first pours of molten steel represent a significant breakthrough into the manufacturing phase for NuScale, Doosan and the SMR industry," NuScale said on its Facebook page.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Thursday, 11 May 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsdoosan-begins-forging-components-for-nuscale-smr-10836039
US-based Westinghouse has launched its AP300 small modular reactor (SMR), a 300 MWe single-loop pressurised water reactor, which is a scaled-down version of its AP1000. Westinghouse claims it is the only SMR “truly based on an Nth-of-a-kind operating plant” and describes it as a “game-changer”.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Thursday, 11 May 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newswestinghouse-launches-ap300-small-modular-reactor-10836205