NuScale SMR receives NRC design approval
August 31, 2020, 9:27AMNuclear News
An artist’s rendering of NuScale Power’s SMR plant. Image: NuScale
The final safety evaluation report for NuScale Power’s small modular reactor design has been issued, completing the design’s technical review and approval, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission announced on August 28.
The NRC will now prepare a rulemaking to certify the NuScale design. Full certification, if granted by the commissioners following the staff’s recommendation, will allow a utility to reference the design when applying for a combined license to build and operate a nuclear power plant.
The NuScale design is the first SMR to receive NRC design approval.
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