Safety certification and reactor brands

Safety certification and reactor brands

by noreply@blogger.com (Dan Yurman)

Does having a nuclear reactor design certified by the NRC, or any other country, help or hinder access to markets?

When two German nuclear utilities announced they were pulling out of the Horizon project to build up to 6 GWe of nuclear reactors at two sites in theUK, it set off a scramble among other vendors to invest in the project.

Unlike buying a car, you can't just decide that if you don't want an Audi or BMW, that you can just walk over to the Nissan lot to look at Infiniti models. Ordering a nuclear reactor is a bit more complicated and you can't just drive one off the lot.