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Statewide siting and transmission screening identifies seven potential zones for SMRs; transmission and water are primary constraints
Summary
Nucleon Energy’s county‑level screening for small modular reactors identified seven areas of interest in North Dakota where transmission capacity and surface water availability make siting most feasible; the firm recommended further localized water studies and early community education before site selection.
Consultants from Nucleon Energy presented the committee with a statewide siting, transmission and land‑use screening report for small modular reactors (SMRs). Their county‑level screening used a subset of NRC siting criteria and ranked locations primarily on two factors: access to sufficient transmission infrastructure and surface water availability for cooling where economically preferable.
Will Bridge (Nucleon CTO) summarized the technical approach and said the study used the same datasets…
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