Conceptual design for nuclear power plant announced

Portland-based NuScale Power and Canada’s Prodigy Clean Energy have announced a new conceptual design for a transportable and marine-based small modular reactor (SMR) power generating facility, which they are now pitching to shipyards to build.

Compared to terrestrial deployments, the benefits of using Prodigy’s technologies to deploy the NuScale power plant begins with manufacturing and outfitting of the entire marine facility in a shipyard, enabling expedited delivery. The marine facility’s design is standardised to allow for deployment at a wide variety of sites and for serial manufacturing.