(WASHINGTON, DC) -- Energy Secretary Rick Perry is traveling
to Europe this weekend to tout the Trump administration’s work to encourage the
development of small modular nuclear reactors.
Perry will visit Brussels for the first-ever U.S.-E.U. High
Level Forum on SMRs to boost cooperation on the emerging but still
in-development technology, which the energy secretary told reporters on a press
call Wednesday is “key to ensure clean, reliable, secure baseload power for
years to come.”
Poland, the Czech Republic, and Romania are among European
countries that have signed memos with various private companies in the U.S. on
developing advanced reactor technologies, said Sam Buchan, DOE’s assistant
secretary for international affairs.
The agency is optimistic that other countries, including in
Europe will look to import a technology being developed by Oregon-based
NuScale that is on track to be the first company to obtain a license to operate
a small reactor design in the U.S. for commercial use, with deployment planned
for 2026.
