U.S. federal agency that licenses and regulates civilian nuclear power plants and reactor designs, including new technologies like small modular reactors.
DOE has selected Deployable Energy's Unity microreactor for a full-power test at Idaho National Laboratory's DOME facility in 2027. It is the first Unity test aimed at the questions an off-grid buyer asks about delivery and removal, though it stops short of a license.
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Holtec filed its safety analysis with the NRC, completing the permit application for two SMR-300 reactors totalling 680 MW at Palisades. Reviews of individual design pieces have NRC dates, but the public record shows no date yet for the permit decision that would let construction start.
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A Form D filed on September 18 shows one investor and $1.5 million sold out of $6 million. At the $0.04 per kilowatt-hour SovAI advertises, one 100-megawatt site would invoice about $35 million of electricity a year.
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The platform converts engineering data and safety analyses into licensing documents in English and Swedish, and Blykalla's head of AI puts the goal at cutting documentation time and resources by 90 percent. The American test is a pre-application discussion with the NRC.
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ONE Nuclear has site control at all three Louisiana sites and a binding letter of intent at the largest of them. It has not yet named a reactor technology for the nuclear campus, or an in-service date for any of the three.
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Google has contracted about 92 percent of Duane Arnold's output for a quarter century, which is what made the restart financeable. The money itself is federal debt, and the Energy Department will not say what any of it does to Iowa household bills.
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Bluecore has a berth at Long Beach, a 185-foot barge and a federal memorandum that obliges nobody, which is a cheaper entry to the nuclear business than a licence and a much harder thing to value.
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Actinide's accredited assay is real and very small. The claim worth testing is that a direct-to-solid separator removes the deconversion step America never built.
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Applied Atomics now holds exclusive US and Canada rights to BWXT's mPower SMR. The engineering has sat dormant nine years; the economics that shelved it have not improved.
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The MIT spinoff keeps pressurised-water physics and redesigns the steam generator, claiming a reactor about 40 times smaller. The bet is that a licensing operator beats a physicist to a permit.
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A $26 million seed funds a demonstration unit and a claim of 3 cents per kilowatt hour. The headline compactness figure arrives without a stated baseline.
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Bluecore Energy has leased Berth 48 at the Port of Long Beach for a floating small modular reactor, and the port has signed a standards agreement with MARAD. No licence application yet.
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