Nuclear technologies have typically struggled to compete with natural gas on economics alone, as nuclear
\ntechnologies tend to come with high capital costs and significant operational and maintenance costs.
\nHolosGen is a very-small modular reactor design company that has developed the Holos Quad, a reactor
\ncore that can address the cost issues associated with nuclear. It was designed with a number of
\ncharacteristics that allow a much lower cost and potential economic competitiveness with fossil fuels in
\nsome markets including a semi autonomous design with true load following, a small EPZ of only 50 meters,
\nno need for an on-site operation team, transportability by ISO containers, scalable size, passive safety, and
\nmore. This technology was developed with the help of ARPA-E and DOE National Labs. While this
\ntechnology offers promise to address cost issues with nuclear power generation technologies, the Holos
\ntechnology still remains to be demonstrated. Furthermore, certain costs may be disadvantageous to small
\nreactor designs, such as NRC licensing fees, as these costs are fixed regardless of the size of the reactor.
\nAdditionally, if the Holos Quad offers a number of characteristics that are not valued by the electricity
\nmarket, such as flexible operation, then these characteristics may not end up being cost saving measures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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