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Legal counsel for Excel Services urges Kansas to study small modular reactors and microreactors
Summary
Brian Meaders, general counsel at Excel Services Corporation, told the Senate Committee on Utilities that new nuclear technologies—small modular reactors and microreactors—offer dispatchable, carbon-free power with smaller footprints, and recommended state-level feasibility and siting studies to attract developers.
Brian Meaders, general counsel at Excel Services Corporation, told the Senate Committee on Utilities that recent advances in nuclear technology—small modular reactors (SMRs) and microreactors—offer a low-carbon, dispatchable power source that could serve industrial process heat, data centers and regional grid stability.
Meaders said modern designs are smaller, often factory-built, and have much higher power density than chemical fuels: “Once built, nuclear is cheap and reliable,” he said, adding that new reactors are designed to be “walk-away safe.” He described SMRs sized around a few hundred megawatts that can fit on compact sites and microreactors of roughly 20 megawatts that can be deployed near factories, hospitals or campuses without extensive new…
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