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

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Tall column of water above the reactor core providing large coolant inventory. Reactor coolant is demineralized water (no boron) which provides a natural ceiling against undesirable reactivity rise. An SMR-160 installation takes up less than 4.5

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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. The benefits of a split cycle have been demonstrated numerous times by different bodies.

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