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South Korea's HD Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering plans to develop a small modular reactor for use in shipping in cooperation with the UK's Core Power and the USA's Southern Company and TerraPower.
Nuclear will be needed to help decarbonise the shipping industry - whether by having nuclear-powered ships or using nuclear to produce alternative fuels - a conference organised by Core Power has heard. However, speakers noted that regulatory issues must be resolved before this can happen.
The nuclear energy industry is seeing renewed interest recently, as the US and EU push to meet carbon-neutral goals and are pumping in billions of dollars to modernise existing nuclear power plants and fund research into new nuclear technologies. That’s a welcome boost to the industry, which had stalled after high profile accidents, including at Chernobyl and Fukushima. Funding to build costly new plants and upgrade ageing infrastructure also has lagged.