Jean-Michel Ruggieri

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Jean-Michel Ruggieri is Small Modular Reactors program manager at the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA). At the CEA since 2000, he headed successively the Neutronics, Nuclear Physics and Severe Accidents research laboratories and the Innovative Systems Studies Service in Cadarache.

Mar 02 2022

Small modular reactors are a key technology to decarbonize our economy

Illuminem Voices

Energy · Power Grid

Lately, the nuclear sector has seen a trend towards small modular reactors (SMRs), sometimes developed by start-ups. Numerous light water SMR concepts are flourishing around the world, based on a wide range of technologies and outputs. AMRs (Advanced Modular Reactors) are equivalent concepts of 4th generation: fast sodium, molten salt or high-temperature reactors, with a longer deployment time than SMRs.