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A New Coal Plant in the U.S.? Once Unthinkable, Now a Strong Maybe
A $350 million Department of Energy (DOE) coal-revival program has put $18.5 million toward the TerraSpark Energy Campus, a 1.6-GW greenfield project in West Virginia pairing Babcock & Wilcox (B&W)…
Valar Atomic’s Ward 250 Becomes Second Reactor to Go Critical Under DOE Pilot Program
Valar Atomics has achieved self-sustaining criticality and completed zero-power testing at Ward 250, its Gen IV tri-structural isotropic (TRISO)-fueled modular high-temperature gas reactor (HTGR), at the Utah San Rafael Energy…
Elementl Power Developing Ohio SMR Project with GE Vernova Hitachi Nuclear Energy
An independent developer of utility-scale nuclear power projects said it has an agreement with GE Vernova Hitachi Nuclear Energy for a nuclear power plant utilizing small modular reactors (SMRs). Elementl Power on June 18 said the facility, sited along the Ohio River about 100 miles southeast of Columbus, has a planned capacity of as much as 1.5 GW.
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In a First for Advanced Nuclear: Siemens Energy Turbine Package Advances for Oklo's Aurora-INL
The steam turbine and generator package for Oklo's first Aurora powerhouse at Idaho National Laboratory (INL)—a pioneering application of a commercially established industrial turbine platform at the heart of a…
Antares Mark-0 Becomes First Advanced Nuclear Reactor to Achieve Criticality Under DOE Pilot Program
Antares Nuclear Inc.'s Mark-0—a sodium heat-pipe-cooled microreactor fueled by high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU) tri-structural isotropic (TRISO) fuel compacts—has achieved zero-power criticality at Idaho National Laboratory's (INL's) Reactor and Critical Experiment…
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From Backup to Prime Power: How AI Data Centers Are Bypassing the Grid
Data centers have traditionally depended on uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems and backup generators to keep them online during a power cut, grid event, or natural disaster. But the critical…
FERC Orders All Six Regional Grid Operators to Justify or Rewrite Large-Load Tariffs
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has voted unanimously to issue tailored show-cause orders under Section 206 of the Federal Power Act to each of the six regional transmission organizations…
Texas Utility Building New 570-MW Natural Gas-Fired Power Plant
A Texas-based power producer has broken ground on a new natural gas-fired power plant that is part of the state's plan to increase its supply of dispatchable electricity.
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Google Launches 1-GW-Plus Co-Located Data Center and Generation Complex in Texas Panhandle
Google and Intersect, a clean energy developer Google acquired in March 2026, have launched construction on the Meitner Energy Center, a co-located data center and generation complex in the Texas…
America's Only Commercial Uranium Enricher Is Privately Building a New Plant Amid a Widening Nuclear Fuel Supply Gap
Urenco USA, operator of the only U.S. commercial-scale uranium enrichment facility, will expand low-enriched uranium (LEU) capacity at its National Enrichment Facility (NEF) in Eunice, New Mexico, by nearly 50%…
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