Korean-US partnership for floating SMR platform

Samsung Heavy Industries and Sargent & Lundy have signed an MoU to develop a standardised floating small modular reactor platform capable of hosting multiple reactor types, targeting commercial deployment in the US and global markets by the late 2020s. The partnership combines Samsung's offshore platform expertise with S&L's nuclear engineering to accelerate FSMR commercialisation for data centres and coastal power generation.

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