Small Modular Reactors (SMRs)
Officials from the departments of Energy and Defense expressed their concerns about the growing threats to the grid at a D.C. forum.
Pro-nuclear panelists at NARUC's Summer Policy Summit said small, advanced reactors are needed to offset the increase in weather-dependent renewables.
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CNOs at the Nuclear Energy Institute’s member utilities say they plan to add a total of 90 GW of nuclear capacity to the grid, CEO Maria Korsnick said.
Purdue University and Duke Energy said they will collaborate to possibly bring in a small modular nuclear reactor as the campus’s power source.
The need for energy security in the wake of the Ukraine war dominated the Atlantic Council’s Global Energy Forum in Abu Dhabi as much as climate change.
Former U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz on Friday called for policy changes to increase private capital for advanced nuclear reactors.
A key theme at the USEA forum was the push toward developing no- and low-carbon technologies that have applications beyond energy generation.
Small modular reactors appear to be cost-competitive compared to other energy sources in the Pacific Northwest, according to a joint PNNL-MIT study.
A designer of small modular reactors has linked with a venture to build four small reactors at Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington.
Two new nuclear plants have been proposed as neighbors to the Pacific Northwest’s only commercial reactor on the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington.
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