The US has awarded a grant to Indonesia for technical assistance towards the deployment of the Asian nation’s first small modular reactor – with a potential site already chosen in West Kalimantan, a province on the island of Borneo.
The US Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) announced that it had awarded the grant to government-owned electricity distributor PLN Indonesia Power for technical assistance to help develop the SMR.
Indonesia Power has chosen Oregon-based NuScale Power to carry out the assistance in partnership with a subsidiary of Texas-based Fluor Corporation and Japan’s JGC Corporation.
The proposed 462-MW facility would use NuScale’s SMR technology and advance Indonesia’s clean energy transition, the USTDA said.
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