The US-based Energy Impact Centre is hosting a virtual supplier day on 15 May to highlight the opportunities for UK industry in its small modular reactor programme.
The EIC has developed OPEN100, an open-source development framework for an SMR. The design borrows from the engineering lessons of the fossil fuel industry and the financing and scalability lessons of the renewable energy industry, to create what EIC calls a faster and more cost-effective approach to SMR development.
EIC said the design represents an opportunity for the UK’s nuclear supply chain and wider energy sector by localising procurement, integration, assembly, and construction.
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