The utility shaved a year off the timeline for its small modular reactors, but needs board approval to begin construction.

What if the next big thing in nuclear energy was a dusty old idea from the Cold War era? Once considered to power nuclear ...

T he U.S. Department of Energy has put US $900 million on the table to push small modular reactors (SMRs) from design to ...

TVA and its partners have reapplied for $800 million in federal funding to build the U.S.' first small modular reactor, after ...

Light water reactors (LWRs) are the most common WCRs worldwide and are divided into two types: Pressurized Water Reactors (PWRs), which produce steam for the turbine in separate steam generators; and ...

Maybe. Powering homes? That’s another licence entirely Canadian nuclear regulators have approved an Ontario company's request to build a single small modular reactor - the first such license issued in ...

Great British Nuclear (GBN), the UK body set up to oversee the plans for new nuclear is launching a tender to procure up to two owner’s engineers (OEs) as part of its small modular reactor SMR ...

The plant utilizes boiling water reactors (BWR), the same type as the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, which suffered triple meltdowns following the earthquake and tsunami. The resumption ...

(Source: ORNL) From there the project ended up at ORNL, where the original solid fuel design ... reactor manufacturers – including GE-Hitachi’s BWRX-300, which is a more conventional boiling ...

OPG will build GE Hitachi’s BWRX-300, a small modular version of a boiling water reactor. It plans to eventually build four of the reactors at the Darlington site. The license “is a ...

The Shimane nuclear power plant houses boiling water reactors, which are the same type as those in the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant that suffered meltdowns as a result of the 2011 disaster.