Doosan Enerbility wins SMR supply deal from US firm NuScale Power

Doosan Enerbility Co. has secured a contract with U.S.-based small modular reactor (SMR) developer NuScale Power to supply a crucial reactor component, the first upper reactor pressure vessel (URPV) module. The Korean power plant equipment maker's President, Kim Jong-doo, signed the agreement with NuScale Power's Chief Operating Officer, Carl Fisher, at Doosan Enerbility's headquarters in Changwon, South Gyeongsang Province.

The URPV forms the upper section of the reactor pressure vessel, containing high-temperature, high-pressure coolant. NuScale Power's SMR design was the first in the United States to receive approval from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and SMRs are designed to reduce construction costs and shorten building periods by manufacturing major components as modules for assembly at construction sites.

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