Texas lawmaker proposes $2 billion effort to jump start the state’s nuclear power industry
Aiming to jump start a long-dormant nuclear energy industry, a state House lawmaker is proposing to create taxpayer-funded ...
The Texas Tribune26d
Companies are coming to Texas to develop a new generation of nuclear reactors
The state is aggressively pushing to deploy the next generation of atomic energy that would power big industrial operations.
Austin American-Statesman22d
A nuclear power plant may be coming to Haskell County. Here's what we know.
Last Energy, which was founded in 2019 by Bret Kugelmass, built two full-scale prototypes in Texas and held several demonstration events to show-off its modular approach to nuclear power plants.
TerraPower CEO says company on track to deploy first-of-a-kind next-gen nuclear plant in 5 years
TerraPower CEO Chris Levesque offered a sunny picture Thursday for the work underway at the Bill Gates-backed nuclear power ...
The Texas Tribune17d
U.S. Supreme Court takes up Texas nuclear waste disposal case
The case could establish the nation’s first independent repository for spent nuclear fuel in West Texas, despite the ...
Natural gas-boosting bill aims to stabilize Texas grid. It could make it worse.
Developers of renewable generation would be required to match it with new gas-fired generation, which could be impossible.
Researchers in Texas Figure Out a Non-Toxic Method of Making Fuel for Nuclear Fusion
Enriched Lithium is a critical ingredient in fusion reactors. Making it is a toxic nightmare, but scientists may have found a ...
Nobody wants to live near nuclear waste. The Supreme Court mulls where to put it
Texas is taking a fight over the country's nuclear waste to the Supreme Court. The issue, a Not In My Backyard dilemma involving toxic radioactive nuclear waste, has been swirling for decades. The ...
Nuclear energy’s MAGA comeback in the AI era, from Three Mile Island to Enron
Nuclear power became a hot topic this week as President Trump floated a plan to make Ukraine’s energy grid great again by ...
Government Technology22d
Can 30 Micro Nuclear Plants Power Texas’ Data Centers?
(TNS) — Last Energy, a Washington D.C. -based startup, plans to build 30 "micro" nuclear power plants an hour north of Abilene in response to "overwhelming demand" from data centers in Texas ...
Dallas Morning News15d
Texas lawmaker proposes $2 billion effort to jump start the state’s nuclear power industry
AUSTIN — Aiming to jump-start a long-dormant nuclear energy industry, a state House lawmaker is proposing to create taxpayer-funded incentive programs to build nuclear power plants in Texas.
Houston Chronicle26d
Companies are coming to Texas to develop a new generation of nuclear reactors
to build a full commercial nuclear power plant in Wyoming. It expects to receive a construction permit application for the X-energy reactor at Dow in Texas this year, Burnell said. After ...