Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) joined leaders from GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy, Ontario Power Generation and Synthos Green Energy for an important announcement in Washington, D.C., about the future of new nuclear.
Ontario-based BWX Technologies (BWXT) has been awarded an engineering contract by GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) for its BWRX-300 small modular reactor (SMR) reactor pressure vessel (RPV). Work associated with the contract includes engineering.
GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy said BWRX-300 small modular reactor (SMR) has achieved a pre-licensing milestone in Canada with the completion of phases one and two of the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission s Vendor Design Review process.
The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission has completed a combined Phases 1 and 2 vendor design review of GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy's BWRX-300 small modular reactor. The regulator said that no fundamental barriers to licensing were identified during the review.