The Tennessee Valley Authority has filed a U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission of the United States. U. S. For a license to build a GE Vernova Hitachi Energy BWRX-300 small modular reactor on the Clinch River.

This makes the Tennessee Valley Authority (VAT) the first utility in the United States to submit a structure permit application for BWRX-300 technology, and was described through TVA President and CEO Don Moul as “a vital step” for TVA, as well as for the region and the United States. accelerating the progression of new nuclear technologies, their source chain and their delivery model. “The IVA has made the paints to advance the design and expand the first application for the BWRX-300 technology, creating a trail for other public facilities that decide to build the same technology,” he said, adding that TVA “is interested in paints with an administration to push complex nuclear technologies.

VAT invested in the popular design of the BWRX-300 in the context of a technical collaboration agreement with Ontario Power Production, Polish Corporate Green Energy, and Ge Vernova Hitachi Nuclear Power (GVH, formerly Ge Hitachi Nuclear Energy, GEH). He also leads a coalition of utility corporations and source chain partners that requested an $800 million grant from the U. S. Department of Energy to augment the structure of the first small modular reactor in the United States and an $8 million licensing subsidy.

Small modular reactors – SMR – are reactors with a smaller and more modular design than the nuclear advertising fleet in the United States. In addition to providing protection improvements, its smallest impression and its modular design means that they can potentially be built faster, they are to use and adapt more in the landscape due to its compact size, VAT said.

TVA already has a first site permit for SMRS at the Clinch River site, certifying that the site near Oak Ridge, Tennessee, is suitable for the construction of a nuclear power plant for site safety, the environment has an effect and emergency planning. It also finished and submitted an environmental report for allocation to the Nuclear Regulatory Committee, stating that site preparation for the SMR may begin in 2026.

“VAT’s investment in the popular BWRX-300 generation design will increase its deployment, helping to meet power development and power security,” said GVH President and CEO Craig Ranson. “This step, in addition to this month’s resolution in the province of Ontario, to build the first SMR in the Western world, demonstrates that this generation is complex and real. “

The BWRX-Trescientos design is a three-hundred-MWE water-cooled herbal flow SMR with passive protection systems that exploit the design and licensing basis of the ESBWR bubbling water reactor evolved through GEH. Earlier this month, the Canadian province of Ontario approved the OPG to begin construction of the first of 4 bwrx-three hundred sets planned at the Darlington nuclear task site.