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DOE to award $900 million for milestone-based SMR deployment projects

October 17, 2024, 9:49AMNuclear News
At Amazon facilities in Virginia, Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm celebrated support for new reactor deployments and announced that the DOE was accepting applications for SMR deployment funding. (Still shot from a video hosted on YouTube by The Climate Pledge)

Yesterday morning as Amazon, X-energy, Energy Northwest, and Dominion Energy were sharing a spotlight celebrating their investment in X-energy’s high-temperature gas-cooled reactor technology, the Department of Energy opened up the application process for up to $900 million in cost-shared funding to support the initial domestic deployment of a different type of reactor—light water reactors generating about 300 MWe that the DOE calls Gen III+ small modular reactors.

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