US to get 30 nuclear microreactors to generate clean energy for data centers

IE ^ | Mar 01, 2025 | Prabhat Ranjan Mishra

[griswold3]

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[kvanbrunt2]

I want one for my house

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

More winning, let’s set the example. Let the Dems leave and go elsewhere and buy everything from us.

[pierrem15]

How fast can this happen if regulatory approvals take 10 years? Plus the endless environmental lawsuits?

Any major economic development in the US is effectively impossible if the legal situation isn't changed.

[Nachoman]

I could use one to run my AC during the summer.

[sten]

‘clean’ nuclear reactors.

Hilarious.

Crack the seals and see how clean things are...

[9YearLurker]

Great! Our electrical grids are underpowered and vulnerable to going down, but the AI-driven control grid that Larry Ellison wants to monitor and manage our every move will be smoothly powered.

[Celtic Conservative]

Whatever happened to gas micro-turbines for home heating and electricity?

CC

[Robert A Cook PE]

A near-useless press release.
What size reactor?
What region of Texas?
How are they to be cooled?
How are these small reactor “clusters” to be serviced?
How are they to be placed behind what kind of security fences and barriers?

[central_va]

More people died in Ted Kennedy’s Oldsmobile than died at Three Mile Island.

[hinckley buzzard]

First I’ve heard of this group. But SMRs are rapidly becoming the answer to providing reliable distributed power.

[RightOnTheBorder]

This is great news if it breaks the back of the eco-Nazi/Lawyer/Government axis that has stifled energy production for so long. That said, natural gas turbine is still the cheapest most plentiful megawatt hours to be had, by a wide margin.

[central_va]

Luddite troll bump.

[catnipman]

“How are they to be cooled?”

my first thought as well: handling the waste heat that pretty much ALL industrial-sized power generators output [excepting hydro] is one of the major engineering considerations for power plants ...

[GingisK]

What size reactor?

...which produces 20 MWe...

The rest, please choke out of reporter.

[rdcbn1]

Nothing new here .

Quite a few American universities have had small scale nuclear reactors for research and training purposes with no problems.

[central_va]

I think Ron Popeil sold them in the 1970s!!! The were called pocket reactors.

[algore]

, natural gas turbine is still the cheapest most plentiful megawatt hours to be had, by a wide margin.

really ? it is cheaper than Hydro, I don’t think so offhand but would like to know if it is somehow.

[BipolarBob]

Here you go. A whole house nuclear generator that will run for decades with minimal maintenance/fuel.