Posted on 06/01/2025 3:52:12 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
President Donald Trump's executive orders on nuclear power could lead to the deployment of small modular reactors in the U.S. by late 2030, GE Vernova CEO Scott Strazik said Wednesday.
Trump on Friday ordered the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to decide on applications to construct and operate new nuclear plants within 18 months. The order also calls for the NRC to "adopt shorter deadlines tailored to particular reactor types." The nuclear industry has long complained that the NRC's approval process takes too long.
Trump's order could result in approvals to start building small modular reactors in the U.S. by 2027, Strazik told the research firm Bernstein in an interview. This would create a "credible shot" of adding these reactors to the U.S. nuclear fleet in late 2030 or 2031, the CEO said.
Small modular reactors (SMRs) are plant designs that many in the industry view as the future of nuclear power. SMR developers including GE Vernova believe the reactors will one day lower the cost of building nuclear plants and speed up construction because they are smaller and assembled onsite with prefabricated parts. Large nuclear plants such as Plant Vogtle in Georgia have been plagued with multi-billion dollar cost overruns and lengthy construction delays.
"It's just the beginning of what could very much become a very meaningful part of our business in the 2030s. We're very encouraged by this," Strazik said of Trump's executive order.
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Depends on what happens in ‘28 wouldn’t you say?
Does this mean we’ll need Yucca Mountain?
In before the Debbie downers.
How about tomorrow?
One of those’ll keep the lights on in your survival tunnels for a few years. Grow your hydroponics, filter the air, and heat that lower-deck lap-pool.
We totally need Yucca Mountain... Grifter and mob punching bag Harry Reid is gone! Ger err un!
TVA has applied to construct a GE Vernova Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GVH) BWRX-300 SMR (Small Modular Reactor) at the Clinch River site in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
That’s optimistic.
What effect would a car bomb have? A rifle bullet?
Just so they can power AI to destroy more human labor or something more important than that?
How small are these SMR’s?
One for each 10,000 households? 100,000?
Just wondering what size the fiefdoms will be.
We should have been building nuke plants 40 years ago.
“President Donald Trump ordered the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to decide on applications for new nuclear plants within 18 months”
Thats still way too long.
A title that suggests that the Nation will soon, in 2030, be flooded with unshielded radiation???
Where can you buy lead jock straps and helmets?
He should warp speed SMR deployment
Does this mean we’ll need Yucca Mountain?
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We totally need Yucca Mountain...
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Again - No.
Spent fuel can be reprocessed. The French have done it for decades. Carter killed it here.
Ok. Regardless of what the french have done. Is your contention that the US has zero use for a deep underground containment facility that is like 75% complete after having already spent millions of $$?
One of the best things Trump could do is to repeal Carter’s disastrous EO banning spent fuel reprocessing.
There is lots of high level waste that can’t be recycled. We still need Yucca Mountain in operation.
Who the hell does he think he is to issue such orders without the approval of an Obama or Biden appointed judge?
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