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The site for the Clinch River Breeder Reactor was a 1,364-acre (6 km 2) land parcel owned by the TVA adjacent to the Clinch River in Roane County, Tennessee, inside the city limits of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, but remote from the city's residential population. [5] The site is now known as the Clinch River Nuclear Site.
The Clinch River Nuclear Site (CRNS) is a project site owned by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). It was originally the site of the Clinch River Breeder Reactor Project. In February 2022, the site was announced as the first location of a small modular reactor as part of the TVA's New Nuclear Program, which was approved the same year. [1] [2]
The planned Clinch River Nuclear Site could house the first next-generation small nuclear reactor on the TVA power grid.
Babcock & Wilcox announced on February 20, 2013, that they had contracted with the Tennessee Valley Authority to apply for permits to build an mPower small modular reactor at TVA's Clinch River site in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. [11] [12] In November 2012, mPower won a US Department of Energy funding competition for new Small modular reactor (SMR
Work at the Clinch River site will commence once B&W mPower and the DOE sign a cooperative agreement for the grant funds. ... our inability to finance B&W mPower reactor research and development ...
Jennifer Granholm said the TVA site outside Oak Ridge could change the world. US Energy Secretary's visit marks global significance of TVA's small modular reactors Skip to main content
Clinch River Breeder Reactor: 1 FBR: United States Atomic Energy Commission: Cancelled Plan Oak Ridge, Tennessee: 350 380 1973 - 1983-11-01 Clinton: 2 BWR: GE BWR-6: Cancelled Construction Clinton, Illinois: 933 985 1973 1975-10-01 1983-10-01 Columbia (WNP-1/WPPSS-1) 1 PWR: Cancelled Construction Richland, Washington: 1,259 1,339 1972 1975-08 ...
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