ASME TechCast
ASME TechCast
Mechanical Engineering magazine
NuScale’s Jose Reyes and Small Modular Reactors
20 minutes Posted Feb 18, 2022 at 3:43 pm.
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The so-called Nuclear Renaissance of the 2000s may have fizzled, but the small modular reactor concept is still going strong. Jose Reyes, co-founder and chief technology officer at NuScale Power, has been working on SMRs for almost 20 years, and his company is making progress toward building the first commercial SMR before the end of the decade. In this episode, he describes the evolution of the small modular reactor concept and how it fits into an electric grid being shaped by wind and solar power.