America’s biggest engineering firm is joining with Babcock and Wilcox Nuclear Energy to build smaller nuclear reactors for the U.S. and foreign markets.
Bechtel Power Corp., is forming an alliance with B&W, which over the past two years has been developing a 125-megawatt nuclear plant design – about 10 percent the size of a nuclear reactor at the Sequoyah Nuclear Plant near Chattanooga.
The Tennessee Valley Authority is working with the alliance and could locate one of the mini-reactors on a site in Oak Ridge, although no decision for such a plant has yet been made.
For complete details, see tomorrow’s Times Free Press.