The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) is to conduct pre-licensing vendor design reviews (VDRs) of small modular reactor designs from NuScale Power and Westinghouse Electric Company. The regulator said yesterday it had received applications for VDRs from NuScale Power and Westinghouse. It expects to begin the VDR for the NuScale design in mid-2018, but has not yet determined when it expects to start the review for the eVinci design. Given that both designs have progressed beyond the basic engineering phase, the CNSC said the first two stages of the VDR can be combined. The CNSC is now involved with 10 pre-licensing VDRs, all for small reactors with capacities in the range of 3-300 MWe.
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