Singapore: The CEO of the Energy Market Authority stated on Monday ( October 21 ) that small modular reactors being considered for powering AI data centers by big tech might one day be used there.
Modern nuclear units with a power capacity of about a fourth of the generating power of conventional nuclear power reactors are known as small modular units.
On the outside of the Singapore International Energy Week mountain, Mr. Puah Kok Keong told CNA that the country has been considering using nuclear power for some time.
He noted that the government conducted a feasibility study on nuclear power about ten years ago, and the result was that Singapore’s size would be incompatible with standard nuclear energy reactors due to space constraints.  ,
However, systems designers are looking at smaller, safer modular units, and it is a place that Singapore is “going to be watching quite closely”, he said.  ,
These have much more passive safety features that will shield the units from panic, they claim. They are suitable for smaller energy techniques like Singapore’s, he said because of their smaller size.
Singapore may look into the choice when it is available, he said, even though there are no commercially operated small modular reactors however.
” Once those are available, we will be very willing to look at how they are operated, to look at, in more depth, their safety features, their health problems, and then we make another analysis whether or not those may be ideal for deployment in Singapore”, he said.