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Electrical substation with high-voltage transformers, insulators, and switchgear connected by overhead transmission equipment.
The Department of Energy’s Office of Electricity (OE) leads efforts to catalyze onshore production and availability of critical grid components to reduce reliance on foreign suppliers as outlined in OE’s Strategic Plan.
Two-level graphic showing illustrations on the top level and photos on the bottom level showing nuclear microgrid to large-scale demonstrations.
Mission-critical commercial and military applications have extremely high uptime requirements and tight deployment space constraints. Advanced small nuclear reactors, packaged as compact units and deployed in microgrids, present a tantalizing option to meet these constraints and advance many of our nation’s priorities.