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An engineering test unit enclosure at the Kairos Power campus, where the company makes many of its parts for a new kind of nuclear reactor it is developing.
PHOTO: RAMSAY DE GIVE/NYTIMES
Ivan Penn
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OAK RIDGE, United States – Once a home of the Manhattan Project, the fields surrounded by forested valleys and rolling hills in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, could soon yield another nuclear first.
Concrete foundations and pilings are rising here for what is expected to be one of the first of a new generation of nuclear power plants, known as small modular reactors.
