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Natura Resources Announces Agreement with NGL Energy Partners to Develop 100-MW SMRs with Large-Scale Produced Water Treatment in the Permian Basin

LCG, February 4, 2026--Natura Resources LLC (Natura), a developer of advanced molten-salt nuclear reactors, announced yesterday that it has signed an agreement with NGL Water Solutions Permian LLC, a subsidiary of NGL Energy Partners LP (NGL), to pursue opportunities to combine Natura's advanced nuclear reactor technology with thermal desalination for power production and oil and gas produced water treatment. NGL transports, treats, recycles and disposes of more than 3 million barrels per day of produced and flowback water generated from crude oil and natural gas production in the Permian Basin.

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OPG Completes Darlington Nuclear Station Refurbishment Project Under Budget and Ahead of Schedule

LCG, February 2, 2026--Ontario Power Generation (OPG) announced today that construction on the four-unit Darlington Refurbishment project is now complete. Station staff are completing final testing, and the last unit is expected to return to service in the coming weeks. OPG stated that the overall project is currently four months ahead of schedule and $150 million under budget.

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Design of Yucca Nuclear Waste Containers Cited by Panel

LCG, Oct. 23, 2003--The Congressionally-appointed technical panel charged with monitoring plans for disposal of nuclear waste has concerns with vulnerability of storage containers that would hold waste at a repository at Nevada's Yucca Mountain.

Waste could leak from the containers given conditions within the repository, ten scientists on the Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board said in a letter to the director of the Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management, Margaret Chu. "We strongly urge you to re-examine the current repository design and operation," a copy of the letter obtained by the Las Vegas Review-Journal stated.

The Department of Energy (DOE) and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission have conducted studies that predict that corrosion would most likely begin within a thousand years from the storage date, although the storage site is intended to be used for a much longer period than a millennium. The DOE intends to prevent water within the repository from corroding Alloy 22 canisters by using the heat released from the waste itself to turn it into a vapor. In the opinion of members of the review board, however, corrosion could result from the combination of air-borne moisture, salts and dust in mountain tunnels, which would collect on the canisters and eat away the surface based on the acidic properties of the mixture.

Members of the review board did not cite their findings as evidence that the possible problems could not be overcome. The findings are not entirely new, given that the board found two years ago that heat could release water within the mountain by heating surrounding rock. The Department of Energy, however, is required by law to show that its site design can prevent releases of nuclear waste into the environment for at least 10,000 years.

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