Microreactor

A fission reactor design rated at up to about 10 MWe electrical output per unit, following the IAEA's description of microreactors as 'typically up to 10 MW(e)'. The US Department of Energy describes microreactors by heat output instead, as 1 to 20 MW thermal. This class is DERIVED from a design's stated per-unit electrical rating (metric:electrical-capacity), never assigned by a steward's judgement of what 'feels' small. A design with no capacity measurement on record has no scale class. The IAEA's own wording is 'typically' up to 300 MW(e) per unit for SMRs and 'typically up to 10 MW(e)' for microreactors, and it does not say net or gross; many developers do not either, so the rating is used as the developer states it.

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