The Gayle and Max Dillard Science and Engineering Research Center at Abilene Christian University in Texas will host the Nuclear Energy eXperimental Testing Laboratory and a first-of-a-kind advanced reactor facility.
New Nuclear 18 September 2023
The hourly carbon-free energy matching agreement will see ComEd power all its offices and metered facilities with locally produced nuclear energy, in a 'first' for an investor-owned US utility. Constellation earlier this year signed a similar hourly energy matching agreement to power a Microsoft data centre.
Corporate 15 September 2023
The US Department of Defense has awarded a contract option to X-energy, LLC to develop an enhanced engineering design for a transportable microreactor suitable for both commercial and defence use under the Project Pele initiative. This second design would be complementary to the prototype microreactor which is being built by BWX Technologies.
New Nuclear 14 September 2023