For the first time in the United States, a utility is asking federal regulators for a permit to build a small nuclear reactor ...

The U.S. Department of Energy has put US $900 million on the table to push small modular reactors (SMRs ... From 2016 to 2020, project costs increased by 75 percent from $5.3 to $9.3 billion.

The Tennessee Valley Authority has submitted a permit application with federal regulators to build the nation’s first small ...

Welcome to the "Energy Switch." Small modular nuclear reactors, or SMRs, are similar in scale to those used on aircraft carriers, but are now proposed for electricity generation and industrial heat.

It might seem like everyone from venture capitalists to the news media to the U.S. secretary of Energy has been hyping small modular reactors as the key to unlocking a nuclear renaissance and ...

Holtec International plans to deploy the first US-made small modular nuclear ... with two small nuclear reactors of 35 megawatts each. In commercial operation since May 2020, the Akademik ...

Each small modular reactor ... consisting of a barge with two small nuclear reactors of 35 megawatts each. In commercial operation since May 2020, the Akademik Lomonosov floating nuclear power ...

There’s no mystery as to why enthusiasm is building for small modular reactors, or SMRs ... are expected to reach some £40bn, double a 2020 estimate, the FT reported this week.

A 2020 state law set a target for 100% of ... Some environmentalists oppose small modular reactors for similar reasons. And a 2022 Stanford-led study found that SMRs will generate more waste ...

the country is looking at small modular reactor (SMR) power plants to make manufacturing more environmentally friendly, he said. SMRs are advanced nuclear reactors with the capacity to generate ...