Holtec International, a New Jersey-based producer of small nuclear reactors, signed a partnership last week with Energoatom and the State Scientific and Technical Center for Nuclear and Radiation Safety to build in Ukraine six SMR-160 small modular reactors

Holtec International, a New Jersey-based producer of small nuclear reactors, signed a partnership last week with Energoatom and the State Scientific and Technical Center for Nuclear and Radiation Safety to build in Ukraine six SMR-160 small modular reactors for deployment in 2026 at western Ukraine’s Rivne Nuclear Power Plant. Using low-enriched uranium fuel, the reactor’s core and nuclear steam supply system components would be underground. The design includes a passive cooling system that would operate indefinitely after shutdown. In Chernobyl and Fukushima, Japan, electric pump systems failed, leading to nuclear fires.