Small Modular Reactors

NuScale / Reactor Developer Highlights ‘Factual Errors’ In Paper On Spent Nuclear Fuel

By David Dalton
2 June 2022

Company says researchers used outdated design information
Reactor Developer Highlights ‘Factual Errors’ In Paper On Spent Nuclear Fuel
NuScale hopes to deliver the first Voygr power plant to a customer as soon as 2027. Courtesy NuScale.
A paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences uses outdated design information for the energy capacity of NuScale’s small modular reactor fuel design and wrong assumptions for the material used in the reactor reflector, and on burnup of the fuel, the US-based reactor developer said.

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