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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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Core Power launches U.S.-anchored maritime civil nuclear program

February 20, 2025, 7:01AMNuclear News

U.K.-based Core Power has announced that it intends to develop a maritime civil nuclear program anchored in the United States with the goal of bringing floating nuclear power to market by the...

IEA report focuses on SMRs and investment

February 18, 2025, 11:57AMANS Nuclear Cafe

The International Energy Agency has published a new report examining opportunities for the nuclear power industry to address concerns related to energy security and climate change. The Path to...

Legislators look to advance nuclear power in the Lone Star State

February 14, 2025, 9:30AMNuclear News

Texas lawmakers are considering legislative action this session on recommendations made last November by the Texas Advanced Nuclear Reactor Working Group.Senate Bill 1105 calls for the...

NANO Nuclear opens N.Y. site to demonstrate microreactor technology

February 5, 2025, 12:00PMNuclear News

To better educate customers and stakeholders on its technology, NANO Nuclear Energy has opened a new demonstration facility in Westchester County, N.Y., that offers an up-close look at...

Industry Update—February 2025

February 3, 2025, 3:00PMNuclear News

Here is a recap of industry happenings from the recent past:ADVANCED REACTOR MARKETPLACE Mission of Gen IV International Forum is extendedA framework agreement to continue the Generation IV...

Reboot: Nuclear needs a success . . . anywhere

January 10, 2025, 3:03PMNuclear NewsSusan Gallier

The media have gleefully resurrected the language of a past nuclear renaissance. Beyond the hype and PR, many people in the nuclear community are taking a more measured view of conditions that...

State lawmakers across the country push for more nuclear

January 30, 2025, 12:01PMNuclear News

From lifting moratoriums to launching studies to labeling it as clean, state lawmakers are exploring ways to give nuclear energy a boost in 2025. Here’s a look at some of the pronuclear...

“Summer time” again? Santee Cooper thinks so

January 29, 2025, 3:04PMNuclear News

South Carolina public utility Santee Cooper and its partner South Carolina Electric & Gas (SCE&G) called a halt to the Summer-2 and -3 AP1000 construction project in July 2017, citing...

BWXT Canada awarded major contracts for 2 OPG plants

Work will support Pickering life extension and Darlington SMRs

January 29, 2025, 9:30AMNuclear News

Ontario Power Generation announced this week new contracts with BWXT Canada worth more than C$1 billion ($695.4 million) for projects at the Pickering and Darlington nuclear power plants....

Wyoming OKs construction of TerraPower’s Natrium plant

January 16, 2025, 9:31AMNuclear News

Progress continues for TerraPower’s Natrium plant, with the latest win coming in the form of a state permit for construction of nonnuclear portions of the advanced reactor....

2024: The State of Advanced Reactors

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