Officials from the US Department of Energy have assessed the technological and financial conditions of the country’s small modular reactor (SMR) programme, speaking at a press event in Washington on 22 February.
Kathryn Huff, assistant secretary at the US Office of nuclear energy at the US Department of Energy, said “we need the first SMR to succeed, but the role of the government is to take the heat of these first of a kind technologies”.
“The work accomplished today will help to succeed to deploy technologies that have got promise,” she added.
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