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More recent designs small modular reactors that produce 300 megawatts or less may be able to provide energy on a more economic scale and thus appeal to a much broader market.

The Energy Department recently said it might spend $450 million on "small modular reactors" that could be built in a factory and trucked to sites to replace old coal plants or power small communities.

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration's 2012 budget proposal will include a request for money to help develop small "modular" reactors that would be owned by a utility and would supply electricity to a government lab, people involved in the effort say.

On nuclear power, Moniz expressed support for developing so-called "modular" reactors that might drive down costs and improve safety.

The Energy Department, seeking to promote the development of a small modular reactor that could be factory-built and cheaply installed, on Tuesday chose a consortium consisting of Babcock & Wilcox, the Tennessee Valley Authority and Bechtel International to receive a dollar-for-dollar cost match in the creation of a prototype.

These findings are applicable to any Light Water Small Modular Reactor that falls within the variables' design domain.

The high temperature integrated multi-modular thermal reactor is a first-of-a-kind small modular reactor that uses an enhanced conductivity BeO UO2 fuel with supercritical CO2 coolant to drive turbo-machinery in a direct Brayton cycle.

But in a videotaped speech this year, a leader of the program, Charles Chase, suggested it was aiming for small, modular fusion reactors that could be built in factories.

The underlying logic of modular reactors is that in nuclear power plant construction, there are no economies of scale; in fact, there are dis-economies of scale.