Argentina carries torch for SMR construction
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CAREM 25 Prototype Plant; illustration courtesy CNEA
News came out this week that the first concrete had been poured at the construction site for the world's first small modular reactor (SMR) project-and it wasn't for a Generation mPower SMR at the former Clinch River site, or for a SMART SMR (which was the first type in the world to receive governmental design certification) at a site in South Korea.