The reactor falls under what is dubbed a STAR project -- Small Transportable Autonomous Reactor. Since the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist strikes in Washington and New York, another "S," for "secure," has been added to the project title.

[Source: Jenny Weil (McGraw-Hill), "Small reactors for remote areas get congressional attention", Nucleonics Week, November 28, 2002, p. 9]