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2024: The State of Advanced Reactors

January 19, 2024, 3:07PMNuclear NewsMatt Wald

Designs for high-tech products, and the start-ups that offer them, will always outnumber the commercial successes. Ditto: many more power plants are proposed than actually get built, no matter what the technology.

This is an axiom of free-market economies, but in early November 2023 it became painfully obvious in the advanced reactor field. NuScale Power, the only advanced reactor that has made it through the licensing gauntlet, acknowledged that the consortium of utilities that was its intended launch customer had failed to put together a feasible package.

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X-energy, Dow apply to build an advanced reactor project in Texas

March 31, 2025, 3:06PMNuclear News

Dow and X-energy announced today that they have submitted a construction permit application to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for a proposed advanced nuclear project in Seadrift, Texas. The...

Molten salt test loop at INL means real-time data on sensors and materials

April 3, 2025, 12:02PMNuclear News

The Department of Energy announced March 31 that a new Molten Salt Flow Loop Test Bed at Idaho National Laboratory recently went through its inaugural test run. The closed-loop test system...

State legislation: Colorado redefines nuclear as “clean energy resource”

April 3, 2025, 7:02AMNuclear News

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis signed a bill into law on Monday that adds nuclear to the state’s clean energy portfolio—making nuclear power eligible for new sources of project financing at the...

Westinghouse delegation visits Congress to “sell” AP1000 nuclear technology

April 1, 2025, 12:02PMNuclear News

Dozens of Westinghouse employees and supply chain partners descended on Washington, D.C., last week to build legislative support for new nuclear projects....

$900M offer for SMR funding opens again—realigned to energy dominance agenda

March 26, 2025, 3:03PMNuclear News

The Department of Energy reissued a $900 million solicitation on March 24 designed to de-risk the deployment of “Gen-III+” light water small modular reactors. The same funding was...

RP3C Community of Practice’s fifth anniversary

February 24, 2025, 9:48AMNuclear NewsDaniel Moneghan and Brandon Chisholm

In February, the Community of Practice (CoP) webinar series, hosted by the American Nuclear Society Standards Board’s Risk-informed, Performance-based Principles and Policies Committee...

Nuclear education and training

March 13, 2025, 7:02AMNuclear News

This year's ANS Conference on Nuclear Training and Education (CONTE), held in early February, tackled emerging approaches to nuclear skills and the workforce. How do we attract, retain, and...

TerraPower roundup: Progress for Natrium project

March 10, 2025, 12:00PMNuclear News

TerraPower has continued to make aggressive progress in several areas for its Natrium Reactor Demonstration Project since the beginning of the year. Natrium is an advanced 345-MWe reactor that...

Politico: Westinghouse CEO bullish on nuclear partnership with Europe

March 17, 2025, 9:32AMNuclear News

Patrick Fragman, Westinghouse’s chief executive, said in a recent interview with Politico that the U.S. and Europe are still ideal partners on nuclear power.Even though President Trump’s...

Lloyd’s Register supports Prodigy’s bring-your-own-reactor floating plant concept

March 14, 2025, 7:02AMNuclear News

Prodigy Clean Energy and Lloyd’s Register have announced a collaboration to support the deployment of Prodigy’s “transportable nuclear power plants” (TNPPs) in Canada by 2030....

2024: The State of Advanced Reactors

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