Is an SMR Right for Your Site? Lessons from a Port's Feasibility Study to Deploy Nuclear and Gain a Competitive Edge

A behind the scenes look at DP World's feasibility study - in partnership with French nuclear body CEA and the TerraWater Institute - into powering the Port of Constanța with Small Modular Reactors, modelling demand out to 2050 and weighing the technical, economic, safety and community questions any operator will eventually face. Ports are electrifying fast with on-shore power, electrified equipment, co-located data centres, and industrial heating - the same load surge hitting factories, clusters and campuses. This session will share the decision framework of how an energy user actually assesses whether SMRs fit, and why firm, low-carbon baseload is becoming a competitive infrastructure differentiator - not just a decarbonisation box-tick.

How do you plan power to 2050 rather than 2030?

A reusable SMR go/no-go checklist: demand modelling, integrated low-carbon system design, siting/safety, community, and the economics - the exact questions a chemicals plant, steelworks or data centre would ask.

Nuclear as operational resilience and competitiveness, not cost