BACK TO THE FUTURE: TVA CHOOSES OLD NRC LICENSING FORMAT FOR APPROVAL OF SMR

In an adroit step backwards, the Tennessee Valley Authority has chosen the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s old two-step licensing procedure in a bid to construct the first models of Babcock & Wilcox’s mPower modular reactor. “TVA spokesman Terry Johnson said the utility is using the two-step licensing approach to allow more flexibility for TVA and the [...]