US-based small modular reactor technology company NuScale Power has expressed interest in rolling out its SMR technology in the Philippines after a meeting with president Ferdinand Marcos Jr. in Washington DC.
In the meeting, NuScale Power representatives confirmed plans to conduct a study to find a site in the Philippines – an archipelago of more than 7,000 islands – to develop a small nuclear power system.
According to Marcos, the Philippines has a power supply shortfall and SMR technology such as NuScale’s Voygr plant could help ease the situation.
“We need everything. We just have to have everything and this new technology is something,” Marcos said.
On social media Marcos said the Washington meeting followed “initial engagement” in New York last year.
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