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Amazon's 20-year, 690 MW power deal with Constellation backs more than $3 billion of work at Calvert Cliffs, including a 190 MW uprate due in 2030-32. Only that 190 MW is new output, and it still has to clear NRC reviews that have not been scheduled.
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The Korean builder's engineering arm signs in New York on Sept. 23, taking a design review role on the Hermes demonstration reactor in Tennessee and priority rights to the commercial work that follows.
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Centrica and X-energy have the Xe-100 in the UK Generic Design Assessment, a three-regulator review running about three years. Planners get an 80 MWe unit, plant sizes of 320 to 960 MW, and a schedule that stops short of site licensing.
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Terrestrial Energy has asked the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission to approve the method it uses to qualify graphite for its molten salt reactor core. Whatever the review supports sets the service life of a component the company plans to replace roughly every seven years.
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A Department of Energy design approval and two boreholes outside Parsons, Kansas, begin the test, but the cost line this design is meant to delete has never been quantified in public, and the demonstration is targeted for 2027.
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The only small modular reactor design the NRC has ever certified now says the binding constraint is paperwork. The remedy it has bought is a nuclear-trained retrieval tool measured once, in a proof of concept, at 80% faster.
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Atomic Canyon's NIVA is now in use across North American reactors. The instructive part is the training corpus, not the chat window.
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The Kaleidos microreactor left El Segundo for Idaho National Laboratory on August 12, bound for a five-phase test campaign that ends with 150 hours of unattended full-power operation.
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The ARPA-E-funded MAYER project would meter spent fuel continuously into a digital twin. The load-bearing claim is regulatory, not technical: a lower NRC security category and less downtime.
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The CEO's number equals 72 to 96 percent of TVA's current nuclear capacity, using a reactor with no operating commercial unit anywhere. Buyers now have to price that.
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