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NuScale Power Achieves Standard Design Approval from NRC for 77 MW SMR

LCG, May 30, 2025--NuScale Power Corporation (NuScale), a leading provider of advanced small modular reactor (SMR) nuclear technology, yesterday announced that it has received design approval from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) for its uprated 77 MW power modules. NuScale states that it remains the only SMR technology company with design approval from the NRC, and the company remains on track for deployment by 2030, with 50- and 77-MW SMR options.

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EIA Presents Analysis of California's Solar and Wind Power Curtailment Challenges

LCG, May 29, 2025--The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) released an analysis yesterday showing that the California Independent System Operator (CAISO), the grid operator for most of the state, is increasing its curtailment of the rapidly growing solar- and wind-powered generation facilities in order to balance electricity supply and demand, which is necessary to maintain a stable electric system.

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US Signs Energy Research Agreement with European Union

LCG, March 6, 2003Today EU and US officials agreed to have scientists join efforts in hydrogen and nuclear power research.

Spencer Abraham, the U.S. Secretary of Energy, signed a pact with the European Union in the office of EU Research Commissioner Philippe Busquin.

According to the agreement, researchers studying nuclear fission, nuclear fusion, hydrogen power, and carbon dioxide removal will be able to work together in order to quicken technology development.

While the document says nothing about how much money the EU or U.S. will put toward joint projects, the signing marked a new direction for the Bush administration, which pulled the U.S. out of the Kyoto Protocol in 2001 to broad internatinoal dismay.

Meanwhile the Bush administration has earmarked at least $1.5 billion in funding for hydrogen fuel cell research. Fuel cells are complicated systems in which petroleum or other hydrocarbons undergo a series of reactions, yielding water, carbon dioxide, and energy. Hydrogen, which is too reactive to survive long in elemental form in nature, can also be separated from carbon compounds and stored as gas. When elemental hydrogen reacts with oxygen, it yields energy and water vapor.

The EU and U.S. have both noted interest in turning to a hydrogen-based economy, a somewhat misleading proposition in that, according to the current direction of research, hydrogen will be derived from natural gas, coal or oil. In any case, the signing comes as part of a growing international effort to change the face of power production.

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