12 shipbuilding and nuclear power institutions, including HD Hyunjoong, launch the SMR Marine Technology Demonstration Center

Combining domestic technology, human resources, and research infrastructure, laying the foundation for industrialization of marine nuclear power

(Ulsan = Yonhap News) Reporter Kim Geun-ju = HD Hyundai Heavy Industries will join hands with the domestic shipbuilding and nuclear power industries and academia to demonstrate and industrialize marine SMR (small modular reactor) technology.

HD Hyundai Heavy Industries announced on the 7th that it recently held a launch ceremony for the 'SMR Marine Technology Demonstration Center' at the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) together with major domestic shipbuilding and nuclear power institutions.

Twelve institutions, including HD Hyundai Heavy Industries, HD Korea Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering, Korea Electric Power Engineering & Construction, Hyundai Engineering & Construction, Korea Register, Hyundai Heavy Industries Turbomachinery, Clad Korea, Ulsan Techno Park, Ulsan Institute of Science and Technology, Seoul National University, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), and Hanyang University, participated in this demonstration center.

The 'SMR Marine Technology Demonstration Center' serves as a base for jointly promoting marine SMR technology development, testing, verification, and verification by linking the technology, professional manpower, and research facilities of participating organizations and establishing the foundation for industrialization.

Participating institutions plan to jointly utilize their existing testing facilities and research infrastructure to reduce duplicate investments and increase the efficiency of technology verification.

In addition, we will jointly develop core technologies necessary for marine SMR application by linking industrial technology demand and university research capabilities, and jointly discover and plan large-scale national projects and government research and development tasks.

Through this, we plan to build a foundation for cooperation that extends from marine SMR technology development to verification and future commercialization by combining the design and construction capabilities of the domestic shipbuilding industry, nuclear technology, and university research capabilities.

Officials from participating organizations, including Hyundai Engineering & Construction and Korea Electric Power Engineering & Construction, expect that this will serve as an opportunity to advance the commercialization of domestic marine SMR.

Won Gwang-sik, head of HD Hyundai Heavy Industries' Marine Energy Business Division, said, "The SMR Marine Technology Demonstration Center will become a cooperation base that effectively connects technology and research infrastructure in the domestic shipbuilding and nuclear power fields. We will build the industrialization foundation step by step with participating organizations."