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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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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....

Industry Update—March 2025

March 13, 2025, 9:30AMNuclear News

Here is a recap of industry happenings from the recent past:ADVANCED REACTOR MARKETPLACE BWRX-300 SMR deployment partnership developedSeveral U.S. utility companies and supply chain partners...

TerraPower awards contracts for SMR simulator, radiation monitoring systems

March 6, 2025, 7:02AMNuclear News

Aiming to deploy the nation's first small modular reactor, TerraPower has announced contracts for the final long-lead items needed for its Natrium unit, currently under construction in...

Penn State and Westinghouse make eVinci microreactor plan official

March 5, 2025, 3:00PMNuclear News

Penn State and Westinghouse Electric Company are working together to site a new research reactor on Penn State’s University Park, Pa., campus: Westinghouse’s eVinci, a HALEU TRISO-fueled...

Part 53 aims to create a clear licensing path for advanced reactors

March 12, 2025, 7:01AMNuclear News

New commentary on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s proposed 10 CFR Part 53 licensing recommendations for advanced reactors argues that more work is needed to make the framework practical....

Nuclear News 40 Under 40 discuss the future of nuclear

March 6, 2025, 3:00PMNuclear News

Seven members of the inaugural Nuclear News 40 Under 40 came together on March 4 to discuss the current state of nuclear energy and what the future might hold for science, industry, and the...

2024: The State of Advanced Reactors

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