In the meantime the possibilities of small modular reactors have not gone unnoticed elsewhere.

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The panelists expect new nuclear plants to take the form of small modular reactors and, eventually, fast breeder reactors.

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It is charged with deciding safety issues for the major nuclear programs such as relicensing existing reactors, evaluating proposals for nuclear waste disposal designs, evaluating new designs for the next generation reactors and the small modular reactors.

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In the meantime he is touting a genre known as small modular fission reactors.

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Each of the reactors will be a small, modular, 125MW advanced light water reactor, which at the present time includes a design for the nuclear core and steam generator to be located at the same site, with passive safety designs.

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Rather than proposing a few more big nuclear reactors, the start-ups are advocating many small nuclear reactors, variously called small, right-sized or modular.

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