Small Modular Nuclear Reactors

The small modular reactors come in a number of different sizes like the one that we intend to build and demonstrate at Canadian nuclear laboratories is going to be just a five megawatt unit. The cool thing about them is that they're going to be built in a factory instead of the way that conventional reactors are built from the ground up on site. These ones will be built similar to like aircraft and ships in a central facility and then they'll they're designed in such a way that the major components can be shipped to using standard shipping to containers.

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