NRC issues first commercial reactor construction approval in 10 years [pdf]

josefritzishere

This is huge, historic even.

WorkerBee28474

The Kemmerer Unit 1 project... would be used to demonstrate the TerraPower and General Electric-Hitachi Natrium sodium fast reactor technology. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium-cooled_fast_reactor [0] https://www.nrc.gov/reactors/new-reactors/advanced/who-were-...

bokohut

And the verbiage that many will glance over yet will have the greatest future impacts for all alive is: "...includes an energy storage system..." Todays U.S. meeting "Roundtable on Ratepayer Protection Pledge" with the U.S. President himself leading that meeting garnished commitments from Big Tech as it relates to energy. In time Big Tech Energy divisions will be thing and some citizens will be paying their utilities bill to them.

rgmerk

Their hoped-for completion date is "2031". Anyone want to hazard a guess about what their actual completion date for this plant will be?

stinkbeetle

Great, hopefully the ship is turning around slowly. I have been hearing from pro-carbon "environmentalists" for 30 years that "we should have built nuclear 20 years ago but doing so now would be pointless". Meanwhile we may have just reached peak-coal today if we are lucky. Well past time to stop listening to anything those grifting charlatans have to say.