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Samsung Heavy and Sargent & Lundy Launch Floating Nuclear Power Plant for Any SMR
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24 July 2026
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Fusion42 · 24 July 2026 · Fusion42 review
Samsung Heavy and Sargent & Lundy have signed an MOU to develop a reactor-agnostic floating SMR platform that can accommodate any small modular reactor design, moving from concept into commercialization as 13 offshore nuclear projects globally commit 9.8 GW to AI data centre power.
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◆ The Wire takeaway
If you make a small modular reactor design, Samsung and Sargent & Lundy just built the ship that doesn't care which one you picked — but that ship now has paying customers waiting. You've moved from selling a prototype to selling the fuel for something that's already being ordered.
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Energy Storage · Clean Energy · nuclear-power · smr-economics · floating-platforms · ai-datacentres · offshore-engineering