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December 5, 2025

Small Modular Reactors (SMRs)

GE Vernova
DOE Awards Holtec, TVA $800M to Build Pioneering SMRs
The U.S. Department of Energy awarded $800 million to the Tennessee Valley Authority and Holtec Government Services to support construction of what may be the country’s first advanced small modular reactors.
Ontario Power Generation
Ontario Greenlights Overhaul of Pickering Nuclear Station
Ontario approved a $26.8 billion CAD plan to overhaul four aging nuclear reactors that supply approximately 11% of the province’s electricity needs.
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N.J. Forum Explores Solutions to Looming Energy Shortfall
Speakers at a New Jersey energy conference discussed how to confront the energy shortfall and get more power online.
Georgia Power
Promise and Challenge of Advanced Nuclear Power Examined
New nuclear generation holds promise for the U.S. and its energy industry if its challenges first can be overcome, panelists said during a Resources for the Future webinar.
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Overheard at the 2025 Ontario Energy Conference
The Ontario government’s efforts to align IESO and the Ontario Energy Board to make the province an energy “superpower” was the dominant theme at the 2025 Ontario Energy Conference.
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Goulding Hasn’t Drunk the ‘Energy Dominance’ Kool-Aid
The Ontario government’s ambitious energy plan could prove costly to ratepayers if load growth stalls or new nuclear plants produce cost overruns, said A.J. Goulding, president of London Economics International.
GE Hitachi and Ontario Power Generation
Ontario Environmentalists Slam New Nuclear Units

Ontario environmental groups panned the Canadian government’s inclusion of small modular reactors among infrastructure projects selected to receive fast-track regulatory treatment, saying renewables would be a far cheaper way to expand generation capacity.

Georgia Power
Around the Corner: The Long-Awaited Nuclear Renaissance Shows Signs of Promise, But Still has a Long Way to Go
Amid the growing push for new sources of power generation — especially from the data center sector — we have seen an extraordinary number of announcements concerning nuclear power, says columnist Peter Kelly-Detwiler.
Georgia Power
EPRI, NEI Update Roadmap for Advanced Nuclear Buildout
The Electric Policy Research Institute and Nuclear Energy Institute have issued an update to the Advanced Reactor Roadmap they launched in 2023.
NuScale
TVA, ENTRA1 to Collaborate on up to 6 GW of Nuclear Build
TVA and ENTRA1 Energy will develop new nuclear plants using the small modular reactor NuScale Power expects to deploy by 2030.

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