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LCG, November 6, 2025--X-energy Reactor Company, LLC, (X-energy) and the U.S. Office of Nuclear Energy today announced the start of confirmatory irradiation testing at Idaho National Laboratory (INL) to qualify X-energy’s proprietary TRISO-X fuel pebbles for commercial use in the Xe-100 Small Modular Reactor (SMR). (TRISO stands for TRi-structural ISOtropic). This is the first time that TRISO-X fuel pebbles will undergo irradiation testing in a U.S. lab, which is a critical step in meeting requirements set forth by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) for the commercial deployment of advanced reactors that will use the fuel.
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LCG, October 28, 2025--NextEra Energy and Google yesterday announced two agreements that will help meet growing electricity demand from artificial intelligence (AI) with clean, reliable, 24/7 nuclear power and strengthen the nation's nuclear leadership. First, Google signed a new, 25-year agreement for power generated at the Duane Arnold Energy Center, Iowa's only nuclear power facility. The 601-MW boiling water reactor unit was shut down in 2020 and is expected to commence operations by the first quarter of 2029, pending regulatory approvals to restart the plant.
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Industry News
European Firms Get $700 Million to Complete Iraqi Plant
LCG, Sept. 19, 2000The government of Iraq has signed contracts worth $700 million with several European companies to complete a power project halted by U.N. trade sanctions, the Iraq News Agency reported yesterday.The report from the official news agency Iraq's public relations department did not say which companies were involved or whether they were acting separately of as a consortium.The plant, about 250 miles north of Baghdad near the city of Mosul, will be completed by firms from England, Germany, Italy, Sweden and Yugoslavia. Money for the program has been set aside from U.N.-authorized oil export revenues.The news agency did not say whether the U.N. sanctions committee, which examines Iraqi contracts, had approved the program, nor did it disclose the capacity of the power plant. It did say that when it was completed the plant would make up the current power shortage in Iraq.If it does, the facility will be the mother of all power plants, to borrow a phrase favored by Iraqi strongman Saddam Hussein. According to the news agency, Iraq currently has about 5,000 megawatts of generation while power officials estimate the country's needs at 10,000 megawatts.
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