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Kairos Lands $643M for Hermes 2 Reactor in Tennessee

Kairos Power LLC secured $643 million in combined private and government financing that will be utilized to support construction of its demonstration reactor in Tennessee. While the firm has not yet ...
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Institutional, Not Neutronic: Why Advanced Reactors Actually Get Built, or Don’t

Sarah Gibboney, P.E., Founder & CEO Gibboney Nuclear, PLLC. Adapted from the forthcoming book ~ Due Diligence: How to Design, ...
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Where the NYT Missed a Few Facts About Nuclear Reactors on the Moon

Where the NYT Missed a Few Facts About Nuclear Reactors on the Moon The New York Times reports that the U.S. is in a renewal of Cold War era of competition with Russia and China over plans to use ...
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Google’s 20-Year $4.3 Billion Deal with Constellation to Uprate 11 Reactors

Google’s 20-Year $4.3 Billion Deal for Nuclear Power DOE Inks $4.2 Billion Loan to Nuclear Power Plants in Ohio and Pennsylvania BWXT’s BANR Microreactor Selected for Canadian Project MARVEL ...
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Kairos & Samsung in $100M Deal for EPC Services

Kairos Power and Samsung C&T Engineering & Construction Group announced the signing of a binding term sheet for Samsung C&T to make a $100 million strategic investment in Kairos Power. The companies ...
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DOE Closes $1.9 Billion Loan to Restart Duane Arnold Nuclear Plant in Iowa

The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Energy Dominance Financing (EDF) announced the financial close of a loan of up to $1.9 billion to NextEra Energy to help finance the restart of the ...
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The Reactor Isn’t the Bottleneck. The Forge Is

The reactor pressure vessel is the steel shell that holds the reactor core. Vendors want it forged as a small number of large integral rings rather than many small pieces welded together. The reason ...
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TerraPower Signs Hyundai as EPC for Eight Natrium Reactors

TerraPower announced two key agreements, one with Hyundai Engineering & Construction (HDEC) and one with SK Innovation, to develop and commercialize its Natrium technology across the United States, ...
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Oklo’s Groves Research Reactor Achieves First Criticality

Oklo Inc. (NYSE: OKLO) , an advanced nuclear technology company, announced that its Groves Isotope Test Reactor reached first criticality after achieving a controlled, self-sustaining nuclear chain ...
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DOE Selects Five States as Nuclear Lifecycle Innovation Campuses

According to DOE the proposed campuses are designed to support activities across the full nuclear fuel lifecycle, including fuel fabrication, enrichment, reprocessing used nuclear fuel, and final ...
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NASA Picks 37 Companies to Power Moon Missions

This conceptual image shows the large circular sheet which is a radiator for excess heat. The reactor is in the middle. Image: U.S. Department of Energy (Tech Times) NASA has selected 37 American ...