There are no nuclear reactors in Oregon, and SMRs would need to clear a number of regulatory hurdles before they could operate. One of the chief blocks of SMRs is Measure 7.

Are Small Scale Modular Reactors Becoming Too Expensive? By Leonard Hyman & William Tilles - Nov 21, 2022, 4:00 PM CST The U.S. Department of Energy in 2020 agreed to support the NuScale project ...

The U.S. Energy Department said it provided more than $600 million since 2014 to support the design, licensing and siting of NuScale’s VOYGR small modular reactor power plant and other domestic ...

In 1980, Oregon voters approved Measure 7, a statewide ban on building new nuclear reactors. But House Bill 2410 would exempt Umatilla County from the ban and allow local voters to decide on ...

Nuclear developer NuScale Power on Thursday won approval from federal regulators for its second small modular reactor design. Under pressure to act more quickly on advanced reactors, the Nuclear ...

A new report has assessed the feasibility of deploying small modular nuclear reactors to meet increasing energy demands around the world. The findings don't look so good for this particular form ...

The State of U.S. Nuclear Energy. As of today, only large-scale nuclear facilities exist. There are ninety-four operating reactors across the country, making the United States the world’s ...

Small modular nuclear reactors, or SMRs, are similar in scale to those used on aircraft carriers, but are now proposed for electricity generation and industrial heat.

China is the only country building many new nuclear plants over the next five years — about 35 gigawatts. Less than 1% of this projected capacity would be from small reactors — while more than ...

Since Holtec announced its small modular reactor project, known as the SMR-300 project, in 2023, the company has chosen a location for the small-scale reactors on the Palisades project ...

The small modular reactors, which Google hopes to have online by 2030, generate about a third of the power that traditional reactors do, but they can be built faster and at a lower cost.