modular, enhanced safety, efficiency, and factory-built and transported to site, reducing costs and construction times • Size & Modularity: SMRs are significantly smaller than conventional reactors and are designed to be modular, allowing for factory production and site installation. • Enhanced Safety: Advanced designs incorporate passive safety features and novel fuel forms, such as ceramic-encased fuel, that can't melt at high temperatures. • Efficiency & Sustainability: Generation IV reactors are designed to operate at much higher temperatures, increasing thermal efficiency and offering improved waste management solutions. • Versatility: These reactors are envisioned for a variety of applications, including power generation, desalination, and supplying process heat for industrial uses, notes the Department of Energy. • Advanced Coolants: Many new designs utilize non-traditional coolants like liquid metals, molten salts, or helium gas, rather than water. • Examples of New Reactor Technologies