DOE Awards $5M For Westinghouse's Micro-Reactor

Westinghouse Electric Company said Thursday that it was awarded $5 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy. The funding will be used to develop a self-regulating solid core block (SCB) that employs solid materials (instead of bulk liquid flow or moving parts) to inherently self-regulate the reaction rate in a nuclear reactor.(read more)