A group of 17 Republican members of the House of Representatives recently urged President Trump to include sufficient support in its 2018 spending plan for advanced nuclear energy technology, and in particular for the DOE's small modular reactor (SMR) program.
As discussions to fill the blanks in the president's preliminary 2018 budget continue on Capitol Hill, the representatives' plea echoes the sentiments expressed by small reactor consortium SMR Start and by Nuclear Energy Institute President and CEO Maria Korsnick in her testimony before a House appropriations committee earlier this year.
Congress recently appropriated $95 million in 2017 to fund DOE's public-private, cost-share SMR licensing technical support program to help accelerate the development of SMRs. However, it is not certain what the level of funding will be for 2018.
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