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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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Bonneville Sees 250 Percent Rate Hikes
LCG, April 10, 2001Bonneville Power Administration said yesterday that it would have to raise wholesale electricity rates by 250 percent on October 1 unless its customers retail utilities in the Northwest and large industrial customers cut back energy use within the next 60 days.That is a lot worse than the picture Bonneville painted three months ago, when it said wholesale rates could rise 60 percent on average for the next five years."Recent developments in the market now require a first-year increase of 250 percent or more, absent vigorous efforts to reduce demand," said Steve Wright, acting BPA administrator. "This could double the retail rates of many Northwest consumers."A long-running drought is leaving the region short of electricity this summer and winter, which could pose reliability problems but, longer term, an underlying energy shortage threatens high costs and difficulties in meeting demand for several years until new power plants, power lines and conservation can be brought on line, Bonneville said.The Eugene Register-Guard said on Sunday that flow in the Columbia River looks more like it does in midsummer that what should be the start of the annual spring runoff. The paper said power production at dams on the Columbia and Snake Rivers has been cut back by about a third.But the drought isn't the entire story. The Northwest is suffering from the same basic problem that caused California's electric mess an insufficiency of supply in the face of increasing demand. To make matters worse, about a year ago Bonneville signed contracts to sell more power than it has. That forced the federal agency into the volatile wholesale market at a cost of more than $2 billion.Last May, Bonneville signed contracts to provide utilities, aluminum companies and others with about 3,000 megawatts more power than the agency could lay its hands on even when the rivers were flowing at their normal rates. Officials at Bonneville assumed they could buy inexpensive power on the open market.Bonneville spokesman Mike Hansen said "people were under the impression that we'd be able to hold rates down. No one predicted what now has happened."
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