NuScale and Nuclearelectrica reach agreement to initiate the deployment of the first small modular reactor in Europe

At the United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP26), U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Granholm, U.S. Department of Energy, and Romania’s Minister of Energy, Virgil Popescu, highlighted that NuScale Power and Romania’s S.N. Nuclearelectrica S.A., signed a teaming agreement to advance the deployment of NuScale’s innovative small modular reactor (SMR) technology. Following the partnership, Romania has the potential to accommodate the first deployment of SMRs in Europe and to become a catalyst for SMRs in the region, as well as a base for supporting operatorship of this new technology in other countries.