{"id":11222,"date":"2023-05-24T10:35:50","date_gmt":"2023-05-24T05:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=11222"},"modified":"2025-03-30T01:18:05","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T19:48:05","slug":"what-are-small-modular-reactors-smrs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-are-small-modular-reactors-smrs\/","title":{"rendered":"What are Small Modular Reactors (SMRs)?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Small Modular Reactors (SMRs):<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>They are <strong>advanced nuclear reactors<\/strong> that have a <strong>power capacity of up to 300 MW(e) per unit,<\/strong> which is about <strong>one-third of the<\/strong> generating capacity of <strong>traditional nuclear power reactors.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>SMRs,<\/strong> which can produce a large amount of low-carbon electricity, <strong>are:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Small<\/strong> \u2013 <strong>physically a fraction<\/strong> of the size of a <strong>conventional nuclear power reactor<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Modular<\/strong> \u2013 making it possible for systems and <strong>components to be factory-assembled and transported<\/strong> as a unit to a location for installation.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Reactors<\/strong> \u2013 harnessing <strong>nuclear fission<\/strong> <strong>to<\/strong> generate heat to <strong>produce energy<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Advantages<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>Relatively <strong>small physical footprints<\/strong>;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Reduced capital investment<\/strong>;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Can be factory-built<\/strong> unlike the conventional nuclear reactors that are built on\u2013site;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ability to be sited in locations not possible for larger nuclear plants<\/strong>;<\/li>\n<li>Provisions for <strong>incremental power additions<\/strong>;<\/li>\n<li>It also <strong>offer distinct safeguards, security <\/strong>and <strong>nonproliferation advantages.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>They can be <strong>used for power generation, process heat, desalination<\/strong>, or other industrial uses.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>SMRs <strong>can offer a carbon free, clean energy alternative to fossil fuels.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0What is Nuclear Fission?<\/h3>\n<p>Fission occurs when a neutron slams into a larger atom, forcing it to excite and split into two smaller atoms\u2014also known as fission products. Additional neutrons are also released that can initiate a chain reaction. When each atom splits, a tremendous amount of energy is released.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/industry\/energy\/power\/india-working-on-small-modular-reactors-jitendra-singh\/articleshow\/100448604.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>India working on small modular reactors: Jitendra Singh<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Small Modular Reactors are advanced nuclear reactors that have a power capacity of up to 300 MW(e) per unit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":11223,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11222","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}