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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
Duke/Fluor Daniel to Operate Duke’s California Plants
LCG, July 11, 2000--Duke Energy Corp. is keeping it all in the family as far as running the California power plants it bought from two of the states utilities goes. Duke Energy North America has given Duke/Fluor Daniel a five year contract to provide operating plant services for the facilities, which have a combined capacity of 3,351 megawatts.And Duke/Fluor Daniel has created another affiliate, DFD California Operations, to take over the day-to-day management of the plants. Duke/Fluor Daniel is a joint venture between Duke Energy Corp. and Fluor Daniel, the engineering, procurement and construction unit of Fluor Corp.The four plants are Morro Bay, Moss Landing and Oakland, which Duke purchased from Pacific Gas & Electric Co., and the South Bay plant formerly owned by San Diego Gas & Electric Co.
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UPLAN-NPM
The Locational Marginal Price Model (LMP) Network Power Model
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UPLAN-ACE
Day Ahead and Real Time Market Simulation
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UPLAN-G
The Gas Procurement and Competitive Analysis System
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Database of Plants, Loads, Assets, Transmission...
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