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The US is on the brink of implementing Small Modular Reactors as electricity generation systems. Those SMRs have many differences from the conventional Nuclear Power Plants we are familiar with. Those differences will substantially change our response protocols to their nuclear and radiological threats. We must first establish what the differences are then prepare our response protocols. We may learn much from other nations and international organizations which have invested considerable effort in investigating the nuclear and radiological threats presented by the implementation of Small Modular Reactors.
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Voss, J.T., Goldstein, R. (2015). Will the Implementation of Small Modular Reactors Affect Our Response Protocols to Nuclear and Radiological Threats?. In: Apikyan, S., Diamond, D. (eds) Nuclear Threats and Security Challenges. NATO Science for Peace and Security Series B: Physics and Biophysics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9894-5_16
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