Westinghouse Electric Company's submittal to the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission seeks to incorporate lessons learned from the construction of Vogtle units 3 and 4 into the design control document and establishes Vogtle 4 as the standard AP1000 reference plant for deployment in the USA.
The award under the ARPA-E SCALEUP Ready programme will enable full-scale field testing of Deep Isolation's Universal Canister System.
Constellation Energy still expects to restart the Crane Clean Energy Center - formerly known as Three Mile Island unit 1 - in 2027 despite possible grid connection delays.
Holtec International has announced the completion of passivation of the primary system, bringing it to operating temperature and pressure for the first time since the plant was shut down in 2022.