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.
Reality
- Evidence45
- Adoption12
- Hype gap+20
- Incentives
- Insufficient
- Confidence45
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.
Reality
- Evidence58
- Adoption5
- Hype gap+55
- Incentives80
- Confidence62
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.
Reality
- Evidence28
- Adoption22
- Hype gap+38
- Incentives70
- Confidence32
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.
Reality
- Evidence26
- Adoption8
- Hype gap+46
- Incentives78
- Confidence54
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.
Reality
- Evidence62
- Adoption45
- Hype gap+22
- Incentives72
- Confidence58
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.
Reality
- Evidence50
- Adoption14
- Hype gap+35
- Incentives72
- Confidence55
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.
Reality
- Evidence40
- Adoption12
- Hype gap+40
- Incentives80
- Confidence38
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.
Reality
- Evidence32
- Adoption16
- Hype gap+46
- Incentives72
- Confidence38
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.
Reality
- Evidence36
- Adoption10
- Hype gap+56
- Incentives74
- Confidence58
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.
Reality
- Evidence38
- Adoption14
- Hype gap+34
- Incentives68
- Confidence44