The Roving Reactor is proud to co-host the Microreactor Salon happening in the evening on Wednesday, September 25th, 2024 as part of Climate Week NYC.
This marks the first ever ClimateWeek NYC event dedicated to nuclear microreactors.
The Microreactor Salon unites artists, engineers, developers, investors, policy-makers, activists and researchers to offer insights and foster new connections.
As part of the Microreactor Salon, we reached out to experts to ask key questions about this transformative technology.
What excites me the most about this particular technology is that it can fundamentally transform the business model for nuclear.
- Professor Jacopo Buongiorno, MIT
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Ideally they should be controllable … because they’re so small, because their simple control systems should be targeted at operations and safety and no bells and whistles.
- Dr. Katy Huff, University of Illinois
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They released a regulatory document for comment, using that approach and those considerations and flagging the different licensing paths that they could use to approve and provide oversight. That's been really constructive.
- Amy Roma, Hogan Lovells
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Every approach is going to have upsides and downsides, and what your community or your region needs to do is weigh which of them works for you.
- Elizabeth Helvey, North Wind Services, LLC
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