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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
Enron Says its Dabhol Stake for Sale at $1 Billion
LCG, Aug. 9, 2001--Enron Corp. of the U.S., which owns 65 percent of the $2.9 billion Dabhol Power Project on India's west coast, is willing to sell its interest in the business for $1 billion, The Economic Times, an Indian newspaper, said this morning.Wade Cline, managing director of Enron India, told the paper that any buyer would also have to pay an estimated $230 million to complete phase two of the project.At the same time, Enron said in a statement "In the interest of quickly resolving this dispute, Enron has expressed a willingness to forgo expected profits and negotiate terms that would allow Indian authorities to acquire foreign stakeholders' interest in Dabhol."Dabhol was envisioned in the early 1990s as a 2,184 megawatt power complex that would make electricity plentiful in the Indian state of Maharashtra, and contracts were negotiated with the Maharashtra State Electricity Board for the state-owned utility to take all of the plant's production and for the MSEB to acquire a 30 percent interest in the project.Since the 740 megawatt first phase of Dabhol began commercial operation last year, Enron has had trouble collecting its electric bills from the MSEB. Moreover, the MSEB declined to increase its ownership in the project from 15 percent and now says it wants no part of the 2,144 megawatt second phase.Enron shut down the existing 740 megawatt unit of Dabhol in May when it was unable to collect $48 million owed by the MSEB, and halted construction on the nearly complete 2,144 megawatt portion of the plant. Cline said the company was willing to provide "technical and vendor support assistance" to a buyer, the Economic Times said.Last month, Enron, along with GE Capital Corp. and Bechtel Enterprises Inc., each of which owns 10 percent of the project, said they were interested in selling their stakes to the Indian federal government or to Indian financial institutions which hold most of Dabhol's debt.Dabhol is India's largest foreign investment, and its future is widely regarded as a test case of the country's ability to attract further foreign money, which its government says is needed for infrastructure investments.
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