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Small modular reactors: No solution for the cost, safety, and waste problems of nuclear power (2010)

AuteurIEER, PSR, Arjun Makhijani, Michele Boyd
6-01-3-60-06.pdf
Datumseptember 2010
Classificatie 6.01.3.60/06 (VEILIGHEID - REACTOREN - REST TYPES, KLEINE REACTOREN (SMR))
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Small Modular
Reactors
No Solution for the Cost, Safety, and Waste Problems
of Nuclear Power


 BY ARJUN MAKHIJANI AND MICHELE BOYD




 S   ome proponents of nuclear power are advocating for
       the development of small modular reactors (SMRs)1
 as the solution to the problems facing large reactors,
 particularly soaring costs, safety, and radioactive waste.
 Unfortunately, small-scale reactors can’t solve these
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                                                                                                       for Social
 There has been a proliferation of proposed            led by Westinghouse: This 335 MWe
                                                                                                       ­Responsibility
 SMR designs, but none have applied for                reactor would use conventional pressur-
 certification by the Nuclear Regulatory Com-          ized water fuel rods in 17x17 bundles
 mission yet. The NRC says that it expects to          with all of the main system c­ omponents
 receive its first SMR design certification appli-     inside the reactor vessel.
 cation in 2012.2 There are three general types
 of SMRs being discussed for certi