The UK government has awarded Holtec Britain £30m (€35m, $37m) of funding to complete Steps 1 and 2 of the generic design assessment (GDA) as the first step towards UK deployment of the company’s SMR-300 small modular reactor.
Holtec said it will out the advanced pressurised water reactor unit through the scrutiny of the UK regulators – the Office for Nuclear Regulation, the Environment Agency and Natural Resources Wales – while continuing its pre-application dialogue with the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission and other regulators in parallel.