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The EU executive is inviting applicants to a European Industrial Alliance with a view to seeing Europe’s first small modular reactors (SMR) integrated into power grids or district heating systems early in the next decade, in line with its plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions to 90% below 1990 levels over the next 16 years.

Small reactors of less than 300 megawatt capacity, and as little as 10 MW, could be “considerably more flexible” – with regard to site selection, construction time and the amount of water needed to cool them – than conventional large plants, which typically consist of several units of around 1,000 MW, the Commission said.