Jul 30, 2026 · 16 min · 9 segments
In this Engineering Matters Awards episode, we celebrate the winner of the Sustainability Champion category, which recognises organisations driving groundbreaking innovation to meet the needs of the…
Charles CarpenterGuest
Alex ConacherHostTim SheehanHost
When most people think about solving the energy crisis, massive wind farms and solar grids usually steal the headlines.
But increasingly, a revolution is happening in nuclear energy within the rapidly maturing Small Modular Reactor, or SMR, range.
These are the factory-built, rapidly deployable clean energy units that, in capacity terms, sit anywhere up to about a 500 megawatt ceiling.
But manufacturing these reactor vessels at scale and speed has been a critical challenge.
Indeed, anything that slows down the rapid production of these SMRs creates a problem to be overcome and undermines a lot of the benefits of such units.
When most people think about solving the energy crisis, massive wind farms and solar grids usually steal the headlines.
But increasingly, a revolution is happening in nuclear energy within the rapidly maturing Small Modular Reactor, or SMR, range.
These are the factory-built, rapidly deployable clean energy units that, in capacity terms, sit anywhere up to about a 500 megawatt ceiling.
But manufacturing these reactor vessels at scale and speed has been a critical challenge.
Indeed, anything that slows down the rapid production of these SMRs creates a problem to be overcome and undermines a lot of the benefits of such units.
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