The nation’s most advanced small modular reactor project has suffered another setback, as the Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems (UAMPS) is downsizing the multi-billion-dollar project from 12 to six reactors. At the same time, UAMPS said the reactor supplier NuScale Power, will increase the capacity of their reactor from 60 MW to 77 MW, which… More Utah public power system scales back Idaho SMR project

Ohio’s long troubled Davis-Besse nuclear plant is facing new technical problems, in addition to its economic issues. The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission July 27 announced it has launched a “special inspection” at the plant. The NRC said the site inspection “will focus on two separate issues: multiple diesel generator failures during testing and maintenance; and… More NRC sets ‘special inspection’ at Davis-Besse nuke

Ohio-based utility holding company FirstEnergy Corp. has cut a deal with the U.S. Justice Department on a fraud case derived from the company’s actions dating back to mid-2019, when it paid key Republican legislators to pass legislation bailing out two uneconomic nuclear power plants. The case ended up ousting the Ohio House Republican Speaker, Larry… More FirstEnergy has $230M plea deal with DOJ

Problems at China’s Taishan nuclear project – which could become the world’s largest nuclear station – are worse than the Chinese government has acknowledged, according to co-owner Electricite de France. CNN reported this week that the French state-owned company said that while radiation detected in the primary coolant circuit at one of the two 1,750-MW… More EDF says it would have shut down Taishan reactor with fuel cladding problems

TerraPower, the nuclear company founded by Bill Gates, just announced an agreement with private funders, including Warren Buffet, and the state of Wyoming to site its Natrium fast reactor demonstration project there. It is the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) flagship “advanced” small modular reactor (SMR) project, for which DOE will pay a heavy share, starting… More Commentary: Will Bill Gates’ Fast Nuclear Reactor Bomb?

A no-carbon electric grid need not, and should not, include nuclear, according to a new report unveiled today (July 15) and done for prominent anti-nuclear groups. The report for national groups Friends of the Earth and the Nuclear Information and Resource Service, and the Illinois-based Nuclear Energy Information Service, done by Mark Cooper at the… More Is a no-carbon, no nukes U.S. grid worthwhile?