The company has submitted the Preliminary Safety Design Report for its eVinci reactor to the US Department of Energy's National Reactor Innovation Center (NRIC). Westinghouse is the first of the three microreactor developers supported by NRIC to reach this milestone towards testing at Idaho National Laboratory.
There is the potential to install 60 to 95 GW of new nuclear generating capacity at existing and recently retired US nuclear power plant sites, according to new preliminary analysis from the Department of Energy.