<img src="https://ml.globenewswire.com/Resource/Download/908fb457-7f8e-4a08-9081-5565e3dfb3d7?size=2" nborder="0" align="left" hspace="5" vspace="5" title="22157.jpg" alt="Company Logo"/>The global Small Modular Reactor (SMR) market is set for extraordinary growth, marking 2025-2026 as a pivotal era of policy, finance, and commercialization. With a market potential of $0.5-1.5 trillion, SMRs are emerging as key players in achieving net-zero targets. As governments and industries align for scalable, zero-carbon power to meet AI and data-center demands, SMRs are poised for a 700 GW transformation, signaling a major opportunity for stakeholders.Dublin, May 20, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The <a href="https://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/6004613/the-global-nuclear-small-modular-reactors-smrs?utm_source=GNE&amp;utm_medium=PressRelease&amp;utm_code=qlz6kv&amp;utm_campaign=2257563+-+Global+Nuclear+Small+Modular+Reactors+(SMRs)+Research+Report+2026-2046%2c+60%2b+Detailed+Company+Profiles+Covering+Technology%2c+Funding%2c+Pipeline%2c+Partnerships+and+Contacts&amp;utm_exec=chdomspi" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" title="The Global Nuclear Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) Market 2026-2046">"The Global Nuclear Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) Market 2026-2046"</a> report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering. The Global Nuclear Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) Market 2026-2046 is a comprehensive 363-page strategic intelligence report that maps the commercial, technological, regulatory, and investment landscape of the SMR industry across a twenty-year horizon. It is designed for reactor developers, utilities, industrial offtakers, hyperscalers, financiers, policymakers, EPC contractors, fuel-cycle suppliers, and sovereign infrastructure vehicles evaluating the opportunity to participate in what the report frames as a 700 GW, $0.5-1.5 trillion industrial transformation. The global Small Modular Reactor market has entered what industry analysts are calling the "Golden Age of Nuclear," with 2025-2026 marking a decisive inflection point in policy, financing, and commercial offtake. SMRs - factory-fabricated nuclear units typically under 300 MWe - are moving from demonstration to deployment as governments, hyperscalers, and heavy industry converge on nuclear as the only scalable source of firm, zero-carbon, high-density power capable of meeting surging AI/data-center load, re-industrialization, and net-zero targets. The report opens with an executive synthesis of the "Golden Age of Nuclear" thesis, anchoring six critical market drivers - delivery innovation, regulatory evolution, economic viability, site availability, capital access, and developer-ecosystem maturation - that pace the pathway from today's ~7 GW installed base to a 700 GW transformation scenario by 2050. It provides a rigorous technical overview of every active SMR family (PWRs, PHWRs, BWRs, HTGRs, LMFRs including lead-bismuth designs, MSRs, SCWRs and microreactors), with technology benchmarking across 15 designs and heat-temperature-to-sector capability matching. Recent funding activity has been unprecedented. In April 2026, the UK's National Wealth Fund committed a £599 million ($805 million) loan facility to Rolls-Royce SMR, anchoring a broader £2.6bn Spending Review allocation and a £2.5bn SMR acceleration package supporting Great British Energy-Nuclear's three-unit Wylfa programme on Anglesey. In the United States, the Trump Administration unveiled a 400 GW-by-2050 nuclear target; the DOE awarded $800 million to TVA/Holtec for Clinch River SMR-300 deployment in December 2025 and launched a $2.7 billion HALEU procurement. The NSTM-3 directive (April 2026) formally established the National Initiative for American Space Nuclear Power, with reactor milestones spanning NASA Space Reactor-1 "Freedom" (2028) through the Department of War mid-power in-space reactor (2031). The EU's PINC roadmap earmarks €241 billion to 2050, Sweden unveiled a SEK 220bn new-nuclear framework, and the World Bank formally reversed its decades-long ban on nuclear financing in June 2025. Commercial demand is hardening alongside policy. Hyperscalers are signing landmark offtake deals - Amazon/X-energy, Google/Kairos, Equinix/Oklo - with willingness-to-pay benchmarks reaching $107-130/MWh for firm clean power. The Industrial Advanced Nuclear Consortium (IANC), comprising Chevron, ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil, Freeport-McMoRan, Nucor, Rio Tinto and Shell, was formed in September 2025 to pool demand. Centrica and X-energy announced a 12-SMR plan for North East England; Holtec/EDF UK/Tritax is co-developing SMR-300 at Cottam; and ORLEN Synthos Green Energy is advancing a BWRX-300 fleet across Poland. Against a potential 700 GW industrial opportunity valued at $0.5-1.5 trillion, delivery-model innovation - from bespoke EPC toward shipyard and mass manufacturing (Prodigy, Blue Energy, Copenhagen Atomics, Aalo, Project Pele) - is targeting a cost descent from ~$125/MWh to $40-70/MWh, positioning SMRs as the backbone technology for 21st-century decarbonized industry. A distinctive contribution is the Market-Access Matrix pairing four supply scenarios (Current 7 GW / Programmatic 120 GW / Breakout 347 GW / Transformation 700 GW) with four demand scenarios (Energy Cost / Energy Security / APS / NZE), generating accessible-market heatmaps for North America (up to 424 GW) and Europe (up to 277 GW). Sectoral deep-dives quantify demand across eleven industrial applications - data centers (75 GW), coal repowering (110 GW), synthetic aviation fuels (203 GW), synthetic maritime fuels (90 GW), chemicals (55 GW), iron &amp; steel (33 GW), refining, food &amp; beverage, district energy, upstream oil &amp; gas, and military (12 GW). The regulatory chapter covers NRC 10 CFR Part 53, the ADVANCE Act, UK GDA progression, product-based licensing, the Atlantic Partnership for Advanced Nuclear Energy, and maritime frameworks (IAEA ATLAS, IMO MSC 110, NEMO). Policy chapters detail the Trump Administration's 400 GW target, NSTM-3 space nuclear initiative, UK National Wealth Fund architecture, Canada's 27-point plan, and the EU PINC €241bn roadmap. Additional chapters cover delivery-model evolution (onsite EPC 'shipyard' mass manufacturing), HALEU/TRISO supply chains, long-lead component capacity (BWXT, Doosan, HD Hyundai, IHI, SGL Carbon), listed-equity and private-capital flows, hyperscaler offtake economics, fourteen detailed case studies (Wylfa, Palisades, Natrium, Seadrift, Cascade, Norrsundet, Salmisaari, ORLEN, EAGL-1, Jimmy Cristal Union), and 61 company profiles - providing a single authoritative reference spanning strategy to subcomponent supply. Report contents include: <ul><li>Executive Summary covering the $0.5-1.5 trillion / 700 GW thesis, the "Golden Age of Nuclear" 2025-2026 inflection point, AI &amp; data-center demand anchors, and six critical market drivers.</li><li>Full technology review of SMR families: PWRs, PHWRs, BWRs, HTGRs, LMFRs (including LBE designs EAGL-1 and SEALER), MSRs, SCWRs, and microreactors, with benchmarking tables and heat-temperature matching.</li><li>Industrial application demand model across eleven sectors: data centers (75 GW), coal repowering (110 GW), synthetic aviation fuels (203 GW), synthetic maritime fuels (90 GW), chemicals (55 GW), iron &amp; steel (33 GW), food &amp; beverage (43 GW), district energy (33 GW), upstream O&amp;G (33 GW), refining (13 GW), military (12 GW).</li><li>15,000 TWh / ~2,200 GW technical-potential ceiling with three-tier industry categorization (Catalyst / High-Confidence / High-Impact).</li><li>Four Supply Four Demand market-access matrix (Current 7 GW ? Transformation 700 GW) with accessible-market heatmaps for North America (up to 424 GW) and Europe (up to 277 GW) for 2035 and 2050.</li><li>Delivery-model cost curves from onsite EPC (~$125/MWh) through standardised EPC, shipyard manufacturing, and mass manufacturing ($40-70/MWh).</li><li>Supply-chain analysis of forgings, pressure vessels, HALEU/TRISO fuel, graphite, lithium-7, and molten salt; in-house vs. outsourced strategies.</li><li>Hyperscaler &amp; Big Tech offtake chapter: Amazon/X-energy, Google/Kairos, Equinix/Oklo, Microsoft, plus willingness-to-pay benchmarks ($107-130/MWh).</li><li>Regulatory framework: NRC 10 CFR Part 53, ADVANCE Act, UK GDA, product-based licensing, Atlantic Partnership, IAEA NHSI, MDEP, and maritime regulation (ATLAS, IMO MSC 110, NEMO).</li><li>Policy chapter: Trump 400 GW strategy, NSTM-3 space nuclear initiative, UK NWF/£2.6bn Spending Review, Canada 27-point plan, EU PINC (€241bn), Sweden SEK 220bn framework, World Bank reversal (June 2025).</li><li>Regional deep-dives across North America, Europe (UK, France, Sweden, Finland, Norway, Poland, Czech Republic, EU), Asia-Pacific (China, Japan, South Korea, India, Vietnam, Philippines, Indonesia, Singapore), MENA and Latin America.</li><li>Competitive landscape: recent 2025-Q2 2026 news tracker, SMR private investment tables, listed-equity snapshot, M&amp;A activity, IANC and Texas A&amp;M buyer consortia.</li><li>SMR deployment scenarios: FOAK vs. NOAK, major projects tracker, capacity additions forecast to 2046.</li><li>Sectoral deep-dives including space nuclear (NASA "Freedom," Lunar Reactor-1, DoW mid-power reactor), maritime (synthetic fuels vs. direct propulsion), multi-product energy centres.</li><li>Fourteen case studies: NuScale VOYGR, Rolls-Royce Wylfa, Holtec Palisades, TerraPower Natrium, X-energy Seadrift &amp; Cascade, Blykalla Norrsundet, Steady Energy Salmisaari, HTR-PM, Akademik Lomonosov, Darlington, FANCO EAGL-1, ORLEN, Jimmy Cristal Union.</li><li>Investment analysis: ROI projections, sovereign vehicles (UK NWF, EU PINC, Sweden SEK 220bn, France EDF), EaaS business models, policy-instrument comparison (ETS, RECs, 30% ITC, CfDs).</li></ul> 60+ Detailed Company Profiles Covering Technology, Funding, Pipeline, Partnerships and Contacts <ul><li>Aalo Atomics</li><li>ARC Clean Technology</li><li>Blue Capsule</li><li>Blue Energy</li><li>Blykalla (Leadcold)</li><li>BWX Technologies (BWXT)</li><li>Centrica</li><li>China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC)</li><li>Copenhagen Atomics</li><li>Deep Fission</li><li>Doosan Enerbility</li><li>EDF</li><li>Fermi Energia</li><li>First American Nuclear (FANCO)</li><li>GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy</li><li>General Atomics</li><li>HD Hyundai</li><li>Helen Oy</li><li>Hexana</li><li>Holtec International</li><li>IHI Corporation</li><li>Jimmy Energy</li><li>Kairos Power</li><li>Karnfull Next</li></ul> For more information about this report visit <a href="https://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/6004613/the-global-nuclear-small-modular-reactors-smrs?utm_source=GNE&amp;utm_medium=PressRelease&amp;utm_code=qlz6kv&amp;utm_campaign=2257563+-+Global+Nuclear+Small+Modular+Reactors+(SMRs)+Research+Report+2026-2046%2c+60%2b+Detailed+Company+Profiles+Covering+Technology%2c+Funding%2c+Pipeline%2c+Partnerships+and+Contacts&amp;utm_exec=chdomspi" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" title="">https://www.researchandmarkets.com/r/4e6u8g</a> About ResearchAndMarkets.com ResearchAndMarkets.com is the world's leading source for international market research reports and market data. 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