U.S. firm makes history with nuclear microreactor, opening door for real-world testing: 'The first reactor developer to reach this milestone'
U.S. firm makes history with nuclear microreactor, opening door for real-world testing: 'The first reactor developer to reach this milestone'
The world is turning to new forms of electricity to try to slow the overheating of the planet, and one U.S. company is marking another first in the nuclear power industry.
Westinghouse, the behemoth that helped industrialize America, has cleared a preliminary hurdle to have a 5-megawatt microreactor tested in two years, as Interesting Engineering reported.
The front-end engineering and experiment design phase has been completed, and the machine is one of three that could be evaluated at the world's first microreactor test bed, per a Department of Energy news release.
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