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Holtec and Mitsubishi Electric partnering to advance SMR-160 small modular reactor program

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Holtec estimates that an SMR-160 plant can be installed turnkey for about $650 million dollars in 2015 dollars (less than half of the projected cost of the large nuclear plants on per megawatt basis being built in the US, France and Finland today) and constructed in half the time of current large nuclear power plants.

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Ricardo investigating potential for its split-cycle engine in large engine market

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In a poster-session paper presented at CIMAC Congress 2016 in Finland, Ricardo described the use of this split-cycle concept in high- and medium-speed engines for power generation to achieve efficiencies of 60% from units of 1–30 MW mechanical output. CCGT units of > 250 MW are achieving 55-60% brake thermal efficiency (BTE) at full load.

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