The US is in talks with several Southeast Asian nations about deploying small modular nuclear reactors, as global interest in the low-carbon energy source increases.
American officials have discussed the matter with their Philippine, Singaporean, and Thai counterparts, said Andrew Light, assistant secretary of energy for international affairs at the Department of Energy. The US can “provide a government-to-government discussion on what is the current array” of SMRs, he told reporters at the Singapore International Energy Week conference on Tuesday.