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Advanced Reactors / Design And Deployment Pose Challenges, Says IAEA

By David Dalton
23 April 2020

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Design And Deployment Pose Challenges, Says IAEA
A mockup of a potential SMR plant being designed and developed by a Rolls-Royce consortium in the UK. Courtesy Rolls-Royce.
Advanced nuclear power reactor designs, including small modular reactors, can play a crucial role in increasing access to electricity while minimising greenhouse gas emissions, but their design and deployment pose challenges to the existing regulatory framework, the International Atomic Energy Agency has said.

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