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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
New Long-term Power Supply Secured by Hydro-Quebec
LCG, Oct. 4, 2002--Hydro-Quebec today announced it had selected a bid from two companies to supply 1,200 megawatts of power over a twenty-year period, starting in 2007.The selections by the utility, worth C$6 billion ($3.76 billion US), will require approval by the Quebec Energy Board, and are due to be followed next year by requests for further supply offers. The agreements would be signed with Groupe Axor Inc. and Calpine Canada Power Corp., which together will operate a gas-fired generating unit in Varennes, close to Montreal.Hydro-Quebec is also prepared to generate power at its Robert-Bourassa LG-2 generator, a baseload unit, and the LG-1 unit, which will be dispatchable. The utility's sales of power are 156 Twh in the current year, and are scheduled to grow to 165 TWh by 2005. "We will need 1.2 to 1.3 terawatt hours more of electricity per year as of 2006," commented Yves Filion, the president of Hyddro-Quebec's distribution unit.
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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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