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• How can policy help overcome hurdles to nuclear power in the United States?

  Over at The Energy Collective , Jesse Jenkins, who directs the energy and climate policy program at the Breakthrough Institute posed a series of questions about public policy aimed at initiating a discussion about overcoming hurdles to nuclear power deployment . His entering position for the sake of this discussion is that deploying nuclear power is a good thing, so he has made a strong effort to keep... Posted Dec 02 2009, 04:45 AM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: small reactors, NuScale, Hyperion Power Generation, mPower, small nuclear

• Energy Northwest Considers New Nuclear - NuScale May be on Their Short List

  NEI Nuclear Notes recently published an intriguing blog titled Walking Toward Nuclear on Tip Toe about Energy Northwest's interest in new nuclear power development. Energy Northwest has an interesting history - it used to be called the Washington Public Power Supply System (WPPSS) and it once got involved in a massive project to build 5 nuclear plants on a single site. The project fizzled financially... Posted Jun 04 2009, 05:11 AM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: NEI, NuScale, northwest

• Atomic Show 100 - Interview with NuScale founders Paul Lorenzini and Jose Reyes

  NuScale Power has been the topic of several recent Atomic Insights posts and also has been mentioned on Idaho Samizdat and on CleanTechnica.com . IMHO this company is big news - it is a venture-funded company with a small nuclear plant design that just may be able begin operating in the commercial market in less than 5 years. (That is my estimate, not the company's.) To give our coverage of this... Posted Aug 02 2008, 06:55 PM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: NuScale

• NuScale Power and Hyperion Power Generation - privately funded, not "extra large"

  Amory Lovins likes to deny the fact that private money is very interested in nuclear technology, while Al Gore is convinced that reactors only come in one size - extra large. Two companies have recently formed that put a lie to both of those theories. NuScale Power and Hyperion Power Generation are both venture funded companies with exciting products in the pipeline. NuScale Power is developing a 45... Posted Aug 01 2008, 04:38 AM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: NuScale

• NuScale's small reactor project in Popular Mechanics

  I have mentioned NuScale's small light water reactor project several times in the past few months. Growing buzz about small reactors that can be built in series production schemes Cookie cutter plants may reduce initial costs of new nuclear power Endurance and resilience - key attributes of an atomic power system Now, the company is getting some real attention from the mainstream media and the... Posted Jul 25 2008, 04:52 AM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: small reactors, NuScale