Doosan of South Korea to Manufacture Pressure Vessels for NuScale Small Modular Reactors

en.Wedoany.com Reported - On October 29, U.S. small modular reactor (SMR) developer NuScale Power and South Korea's Doosan Enerbility officially signed a component manufacturing contract at Doosan's headquarters in Changwon, under which Doosan will manufacture core components including the upper reactor pressure vessel for the NuScale Power Module (NPM).

Under the contract, Doosan Enerbility will manufacture upper reactor coolant system and pressure vessel components at its Changwon reactor production base. The two parties have been cooperating since 2019, and this signing marks a full upgrade of their collaboration from material preparation to the actual manufacturing stage of reactor components for commercial deployment, providing NuScale with reliable equipment delivery assurance.

The NuScale Power Module is a 77-megawatt integrated pressurized water reactor and is the first SMR technology to receive design certification from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). NuScale President and Chief Executive Officer John Hopkins and Jongdoo Kim, CEO of Doosan Enerbility's Nuclear Business Group, both stated that the contract is a key milestone in advancing SMR technology from proof of concept to commercial engineering manufacturing.

As the first commercial SMR project using this module has selected a site at the retired coal-fired power plant in Doicești, Romania, the signing of this core component manufacturing contract will lay a solid supply chain foundation for on-schedule delivery of the Romanian project and subsequent overseas SMR orders.