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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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David Helwig, most recently ComEd executive vice president of operations, was recently appointed president and chief operating officer for InfraSource, an Exelon subsidiary based in Morton, Pa. He has managed all areas of the ComEd transmission and distribution system, and has over two decades of experience in line, engineering and services areas for PECO Energy, as well as General Electric Nuclear Energy's global services.Robert Fishman, senior vice president at Calpine Corp. has been selected to lead Calpine's GE LM6000 combustion gas turbine peaker program. He will oversee development, engineering and construction of 15 peaking turbines located at sites throughout Northern California. Fishman has also been president of PB Power, part of the Parsons Brinckerhoff group of companies. He has nearly three deacdes of experience in project development, management and facilities engineering. Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham has reappointedRufus D. Gladney to the National PetroleumCouncil. Gladney serves as ConsumerEnergy's executive manager of business servicesand was appointed to the council last year. Michael W. Rencheck will become senior vicepresident of engineering and region operations forAEP Pro Serv, Inc., a subsidiary of AmericanElectric Power. Rencheck entered AEP as vicepresident-nuclear engineering of the Cook NuclearPlant in Bridgman, Michigan.
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UPLAN-NPM
The Locational Marginal Price Model (LMP) Network Power Model
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Day Ahead and Real Time Market Simulation
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The Gas Procurement and Competitive Analysis System
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