By Kennedy Maize In his 1841 essay “Self-Reliance,” American Trancendentalist philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.” That seems to be the working credo of the current U.S. Supreme Court, at least when it comes to the National Environmental Policy… More Commentary: Chevron lives? “A foolish consistency…?”

By Kennedy Maize The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission last week approved NuScale Power’s evolutionary small modular reactor design, a 77-MW light water cooled and moderated pressurized water reactor in a six-reactor package. The “US460” SMR is a scaled-up design based on the NRC’s 2020 approval of NuScale’s original 50-MW machine. The NRC staff, in the… More NRC Oks NuScale’s 77-MW SMR design