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Small modular reactors – the real nuclear renaissance?

By Juan Matthews Filed Under: Featured, Science and Technology Posted: November 18, 2015

The future of the nuclear industry could lie with small reactors, argues Professor Juan Matthews. In the beginning, all reactors in nuclear power stations were small. Calder Hall, Britain’s first power station which went on-line in 1956, consisted of four reactors each generating just 50 MW of electricity. The next generation of Magnox reactors averaged […]

Tagged With: Chernobyl, Dalton Nuclear Institute, energy, National Nuclear Laboratory, nuclear, nuclear power, NuScale, U-Battery

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