US nuclear company Westinghouse is seeing significant interest in a project to build a transportable nuclear power plant that will provide “always-on” power in areas where the construction of nuclear projects would be traditionally considered economically or technically impractical.
Westinghouse and Prodigy Clean Energy, a Canadian developer of marine- and land-based transportable nuclear power plants, or TNPPs, are designing what they say is a solution for the constant demands for electricity and heat in these types of harsh, remote climates.
Their TNPP would have a 5-MW Westinghouse eVinci microreactor and would be prefabricated and transported to a site for installation at the shoreline or on land. The first unit could be operating by in Canada by 2030.