by Prodigy Clean Energy
October 21, 2024
Held from October 21-25, 2024, in Vienna, this highly engaging conference provided an international forum to discuss progress, opportunities, challenges and enabling conditions for the accelerated development and safe and secure deployment of SMRs. Participants came from a wide spectrum of organizations, including government and regulators, owners/operators, vendors and the greater supply chain.
Prodigy’s VP of Strategy and Technology Integration, Federico Puente-Espel, and VP of Innovation and Regulatory Affairs, Marcel Devos, presented at the conference as part of a panel discussion and exhibition to speak to the company’s progress to demonstrate readiness of its Transportable Nuclear Power Plant (TNPP) technologies for first new build project construction starting in 2030. Pre-commercial activities, supported in part by a recent CAD$2.75M investment from the Government of Canada, include developing a TNPP supply chain and advancing standardized system level facility configurations that meet Canadian regulatory requirements to begin licensing.
An area of focus for Prodigy at the IAEA conference was showcasing an integrated approach to implementing Safety, Security, Safeguards and Decommissioning (“3S and D”) by design up-front, when merging the Prodigy TNPP structural and operational features with those of an SMR design. The development of adaptable and SMR-agnostic transportable power plant solutions customizable by SMR type and size, and specific end-use requirements, allows Prodigy to be a key deployment enabler for SMRs and to maximally serve global power markets.
