A) Our selected SMR designs provide multiple layers of safety, redundancy, and back-up systems, meeting the highest standards of safety, security, safeguards, and environmental protection. We prioritize innovative safety features, such as reactor designs protected by safety systems that can operate independently of any human intervention to put the core into a safe state.

A) A main innovation across our portfolio of selected SMRs is the modular, factory-fabricated nature of the power plant components. We select designs with low technology and execution risk, often based on tried and tested designs and technologies.

A) Traditionally yes, but the SMR approach takes all the learnings from previous large projects and project failures, and has designed an efficient and lower cost route to deployment for example through the use of factory-fabricated, transportable modules.

A) Designs that use standard Low-Enriched Uranium (LEU) fuel can be supplied by existing fuel fabrication facilities, avoiding the need for a new supply chain and reducing risk. New designs that utilize High-Assay Low-Enriched Uranium (HALEU) and other modified fuels have potential benefits ready for when that supply chain develops.

A) The amount of spent fuel during the life of a typical SMR can all be stored on site. On-site storage would normally consist of wet storage in the spent fuel pool followed by dry storage in casks. Recycling of spent fuel may develop into a commercial option, or the spent fuel assemblies will be transported from the site before final decommissioning to a long-term safe storage facility. There are many simple safe solutions for storage.