{"id":7025,"date":"2026-04-03T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/global-energy-solutions.org\/?p=7025"},"modified":"2026-04-01T13:27:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T11:27:18","slug":"impuls-paper-expand-research-on-small-modular-reactors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/global-energy-solutions.org\/en\/impuls-paper-expand-research-on-small-modular-reactors\/","title":{"rendered":"IMPULS Paper: Expand research on small modular reactors!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has described the move away from nuclear power as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tagesschau.de\/ausland\/europa\/eu-frankreich-atomkraft-von-der-leyen-100.html\">strategic mistake<\/a>. Bavaria\u2019s Minister-President Markus S\u00f6der goes a step further and proposes a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tagesschau.de\/inland\/innenpolitik\/atomkraft-bayern-soeder-csu-wirbt-fuer-mini-akw-100.html\">German pilot project<\/a> for Small Modular Reactors (SMR). Immediately, an energy expert from the SPD calls the initiative <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tagesschau.de\/inland\/innenpolitik\/atomkraft-bayern-soeder-csu-wirbt-fuer-mini-akw-100.html\">\u201cabsurd<\/a>.\u201d In our IMPULS paper, we provide context on the topic of \u201cSmall Modular Reactors\u201d (SMRs), as the term is new to many stakeholders. For Germany, GES proposes the development of its own research ecosystem for SMRs. Otherwise, our country will once again lag behind in this important innovation.<\/p>\n\n<p>Click here for <a href=\"https:\/\/global-energy-solutions.org\/publikation\/impuls-forschung-fuer-small-modular-reaktor-ausbauen\/\">the IMPULS paper<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p>Click here for <a href=\"https:\/\/global-energy-solutions.org\/en\/ges-newsletter\/newsletter-june-2025\/\">the June 2025 newsletter,<\/a> featuring in-depth articles on SMR.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has described the move away from nuclear power as a strategic mistake. Bavaria\u2019s Minister-President Markus S\u00f6der goes a step further and proposes a German pilot project for Small Modular Reactors (SMR). Immediately, an energy expert from the SPD calls the initiative \u201cabsurd.\u201d In our IMPULS paper, we provide [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6979,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-factsheets-en","category-publications"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/global-energy-solutions.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/global-energy-solutions.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/global-energy-solutions.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/global-energy-solutions.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/global-energy-solutions.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7025"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/global-energy-solutions.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7026,"href":"https:\/\/global-energy-solutions.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7025\/revisions\/7026"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/global-energy-solutions.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/global-energy-solutions.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/global-energy-solutions.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/global-energy-solutions.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}