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X Link @HopfJames 2025-10-15T17:52Z 7364 followers, XXX engagements

"Bechtel a major player in the nuclear industry thinks that we may have ten large reactors under construction by 2030. They also say that a new economic model where all companies involved in a nuclear project share the financial risk is necessary. Article link in reply. Bechtel rep Craig Albert said that: Everyone at the table realizes theyre going to have to take on more risk than they have in the past and Bechtel is willing to change the way it gets paid." This is a welcome statement IMO. I've been wary of defense contractors' involvement in nuclear projects due to their record of high costs"
X Link @HopfJames 2025-10-13T17:00Z 7364 followers, 6942 engagements

"Natura Resources which plans to build a X MW molten salt micro-reactor at Abilene Christian University in TX says that they are on track to start the reactor next year. It would be the first Gen IV reactor in the US. Article link in reply. The NRC granted a construction license in 2024 and Natura Resources plans to file an operating license application in a few months. The HALEU fuel that the reactor would use has already been secured. Over the longer term Natura Resources plans to develop a XXX MW molten salt SMR"
X Link @HopfJames 2025-10-15T17:52Z 7364 followers, 4099 engagements

"Governors from XX states New York Indiana Kentucky Tennessee and Wyoming Louisiana Maryland Pennsylvania Utah Virginia and West Virginia have agreed to collaborate in nuclear power development. Article link in reply. Specifically the governors' have developed a First Mover Initiative that seeks to create a standardized and scalable approach that will lead to lower costs and build times. They plan to create an "order book" for given designs i.e. contracts to build mulitple units (as opposed to a single reactor). This will speed the transition from first of a kind (FOAK) to Nth of a kind (NOAK)"
X Link @HopfJames 2025-10-15T17:35Z 7364 followers, 2048 engagements

"GE Vernova Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GVH) has formed an alliance with Korea's Samsung C&T to build its BWRX-300 SMRs in markets outside North America. Article link in reply. Samsung C&T has a superior record in nuclear plant construction including the successful construction of the 4-unit plant in the UAE. The team may construct five BWRX-300 SMRs in Sweden. The world's first BWRX-300 is under construction in Ontario. Also a US TVA BWRX-300 project has been accepted for review by the US NRC"
X Link @HopfJames 2025-10-08T15:17Z 7364 followers, 4644 engagements

"Radiant is investing $XXX million in nuclear manufacuring and R&D facilities. In the Oak Ridge area. It's the 6th company to make use of the $XX million TN $XX million Nuclear Energy Fund that supports nuclear development. Article link in reply. Several nuclear companies and projects are active in TN. Oklo and Kairos also have a presence in Oak Ridge. TVA has expressed interest in BWRX-300 Kairos and NuSCale reactors"
X Link @HopfJames 2025-10-14T15:13Z 7364 followers, 7806 engagements

"EnergySolutions and a Wisconsin utility (WEC Energy Group) are pursuing the construction of a new nuclear plant on the site of the decommissioned Kewanee reactor. Article link in reply. They've just issued a press release saying that they're planning to apply for an NRC Early Site Permit (see 2nd reply). ESPs qualify the site for nuclear but do not specify the reactor design"
X Link @HopfJames 2025-05-14T17:27Z 7363 followers, 5465 engagements

"Oklo announced plans to build a used nuclear fuel reprocessing favility in Oak Ridge. They're now expressing interest in building reactors at that facility as well. Article link in reply"
X Link @HopfJames 2025-10-13T17:05Z 7363 followers, 1523 engagements

"There are XX SMR designs under development XX of which are involved in licensing or pre-licensing activities. Article link in reply. While this is definitely a positive sign of interest it may not be a good thing over the long term. For SMRs to be economically competitive we need to build large numbers of reactors of a given design. That is mass production of carbon copies. This wont happen if everyone is building a different design. Soon we will have to settle on just a few designs. The market will have to do some serious down-selecting soon"
X Link @HopfJames 2025-07-21T14:57Z 7363 followers, 13.7K engagements

"NRC has approved production of 10%-enriched uranium nuclear fuel at Urenco USA's Eunice New Mexico facility. The new (5% - 10%) fuel is called LEU+. Article link in reply. LEU+ will be able to fuel new and existing LWRs as well as advanced reactor designs. It can also be used as a feedstock to produce HALEU (uranium fuel with enrichments up to 20%) down the road. Benefits to LWRs include longer operating cycles which would increase capacity factors and thus reduce operating costs"
X Link @HopfJames 2025-10-03T14:48Z 7364 followers, 4468 engagements

""Bitcoin miner and clean energy infrastructure developer" Digihost Technology is partnering with Nano Nuclear to deploy a XX MW reactor in Tonawanda New York (North of Buffalo). Article link in reply. The Tonawanda site currently has a XX MW combined-cycle gas plant. They hope to start operation in 2031"
X Link @HopfJames 2024-12-17T18:23Z 7346 followers, 3741 engagements

"Poland Sweden Finland Estonia and Latvia have adopted a declaration supporting the expansion of nuclear energy in a bid to strengthen the regions energy security. Article link in reply"
X Link @HopfJames 2025-10-08T16:06Z 7358 followers, 9195 engagements

"The US militrary is moving forward with plans to deploy a micro-reactor at a military base by 2028 as called for by a Trump executive order. Article link in reply. Army Secretary Dan Driscoll said that: We are shredding red tape and incubating next-generation capabilities in a variety of critical sectors including nuclear power"
X Link @HopfJames 2025-10-15T17:22Z 7364 followers, 2224 engagements

"In response to increasing power demand in Texas Vistra is entered into a 20-year 1200 MW power purchase agreement (PPA) with the Comanche Peak nuclear power plant. Article link in reply. They're also increasing the capacity of the Permian Basin gas power plant from XXX MW to 1185 MW"
X Link @HopfJames 2025-09-30T13:19Z 7343 followers, 1116 engagements

"Slovakia has made an agreement with the US and Westinghouse to build an AP1000. Westinghouse is doing well in Eastern Europe. AP1000s are also planned in Poland and Ukraine. Article link in reply"
X Link @HopfJames 2025-10-07T15:42Z 7347 followers, 15.2K engagements

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X Link @HopfJames 2025-10-08T15:17Z 7364 followers, XXX engagements

"Constellation Energy Corp the US's largest nuclear operator announced that it plans to build a new reactor on the site of one of the three upstate NY plants that they already operate. Article link in reply. The did not specify which reactor design they will build or which site it will build at"
X Link @HopfJames 2025-09-09T14:44Z 7356 followers, 20.2K engagements