Support Power Reactor Innovative Small Module Licensing
The Power Reactor Innovative Small Module (PRISM) is a fourth-generation reactor designed in the early 1990s by General Electric and Argonne National Laboratory.
- It is inherently safe. Tests on a prototype in April 1986 simulated the Chernobyl and Three Mile Island accidents, and the reactor's metal fuel rods expanded, stopping the chain reaction. Operators literally got up and left, and physics took care of the rest.
- It recycles waste. PRISM is designed specifically to increase the efficiency of the fuel cycle from its current 1% to approximately 99.5%. All of the electricity for the United States for the next 500 years could be produced by PRISM-type reactors running exclusively on materials currently considered to be nuclear waste.
- It assists non-proliferation efforts. Not only can PRISM consume weapons-grade plutonium (and doesn't produce any of its own), but it also uses a radically different recycling process that never isolates plutonium. It also operates its recycling operation onsite--removing any excuse to move fuel or waste off-site.
- It produces cheap electricity. Construction and maintenance costs are estimated to be lower than for a coal plant that meets Clean Air Act standards, along with nuclear power's traditional low fuel costs.
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