Small Modular Reactors

NuScale Power / Coal To Nuclear Transition Will Use Existing Workers And Infrastructure

By David Dalton
27 September 2021

CEO says that in terms of cross-training people ‘we see no problem’
Coal To Nuclear Transition Will Use Existing Workers And Infrastructure
A 12-module NuScale plant needs about 14 hectares of land, which is typically much smaller than the coal facility it replaces. Courtesy NuScale.
Building small modular reactors at the “considerable” number of fossil fuel and coal plants that will be going out of service towards the end of the decade and beyond means workers can be cross-trained and millions of dollars saved by using existing infrastructure, the chairman and chief executive officer of SMR developer NuScale Power said.

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