Small modular reactor

SMR

A fission reactor design rated at up to 300 MWe electrical output per unit, following the IAEA's description of SMRs as 'typically up to 300 MW(e) per unit'. This class is DERIVED from a design's stated per-unit electrical rating (metric:electrical-capacity), never assigned. A microreactor (up to about 10 MWe) is the smallest tier within this range in common usage, but is held here as its own class because readers filter for it separately. 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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scale:smr

Scheme

Size classes

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