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Transportation Department seeks to develop SMRs for commercial shipping
The Department of Transportation has announced an initiative to develop small modular reactors for commercial shipping. The U.S. Maritime Administration (MARAD) has launched a request for information (RFI) seeking industry input on the development of “a U.S.-built scalable, repeatable, commercially viable, system-centric, small modular reactor and their deployment within the marine transportation system.”
Mohammad Abdo, Rabab Elzohery, Jeremy A. Roberts (Kansas State)
Transactions | Volume 119 | Number 1 | November 2018 | Pages 683-686
