Idaho national laboratory's 100-Foot DOME: The new nuclear test site for SMR's

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At Idaho National Laboratory, the 100-foot containment dome of the retired EBR-II reactor has been rebuilt as DOME, a test bay where private companies bring factory-built microreactors and run them at full power. We break down the engineering behind the conversion, from a 59,000-…