Texas A&M Launches SMR ‘Energy Proving Ground’ with Selection of Four Nuclear Firms

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2025 22:48:21 +0000

Texas A&M University System has unveiled four nuclear developers with which it plans to explore building and operating small modular reactor plants (SMRs) at its Texas A&M-RELLIS campus near College […]

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Artist’s rendering of Texas A&M’s ‘Energy Proving Ground’ at the RELLIS Campus, where four selected nuclear developers will advance SMR technology and testing. Courtesy: TAMU

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Bill Gates’ TerraPower Has Deal to Use Nuclear Power for Data Centers

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2025 15:48:58 +0000

TerraPower, the nuclear energy company founded by former Microsoft CEO and co-founder Bill Gates, announced it has a memorandum of understanding with a major U.S. data center developer to deploy […]

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Constellation Seeking Permit for Small Modular Reactor at Nine Mile Point

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2025 17:19:10 +0000

Constellation Energy said the company is applying for federal funding as it evaluates whether to put one or more small modular nuclear reactors (SMRs) at its Nine Mile Point nuclear […]

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CSIRO Study: Nuclear Energy Is Not The Savior Some People Say It Is

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2024 14:27:27 +0000

New SMR technology or not, researchers have thrown cold water on the idea of launching the nuclear energy industry into Australia.

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U.S. Has Agreement to Help Build SMRs for Ukraine Power Generation

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2024 16:49:44 +0000

Officials from the U.S. and Ukraine said the countries will partner on building small modular reactors (SMRs) to replace the latter’s coal-fired power generation, with the SMRs used to help […]

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