Small Modular Reactors (SMRs)
The U.S. Department of Energy awarded $800 million to the Tennessee Valley Authority and Holtec Government Services to support construction of what may be the country’s first advanced small modular reactors.
Ontario approved a $26.8 billion CAD plan to overhaul four aging nuclear reactors that supply approximately 11% of the province’s electricity needs.
Speakers at a New Jersey energy conference discussed how to confront the energy shortfall and get more power online.
New nuclear generation holds promise for the U.S. and its energy industry if its challenges first can be overcome, panelists said during a Resources for the Future webinar.
The Ontario government’s efforts to align IESO and the Ontario Energy Board to make the province an energy “superpower” was the dominant theme at the 2025 Ontario Energy Conference.
The Ontario government’s ambitious energy plan could prove costly to ratepayers if load growth stalls or new nuclear plants produce cost overruns, said A.J. Goulding, president of London Economics International.
Ontario environmental groups panned the Canadian government’s inclusion of small modular reactors among infrastructure projects selected to receive fast-track regulatory treatment, saying renewables would be a far cheaper way to expand generation capacity.
Amid the growing push for new sources of power generation — especially from the data center sector — we have seen an extraordinary number of announcements concerning nuclear power, says columnist Peter Kelly-Detwiler.
The Electric Policy Research Institute and Nuclear Energy Institute have issued an update to the Advanced Reactor Roadmap they launched in 2023.
TVA and ENTRA1 Energy will develop new nuclear plants using the small modular reactor NuScale Power expects to deploy by 2030.
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