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LCG, November 6, 2025--X-energy Reactor Company, LLC, (X-energy) and the U.S. Office of Nuclear Energy today announced the start of confirmatory irradiation testing at Idaho National Laboratory (INL) to qualify X-energy’s proprietary TRISO-X fuel pebbles for commercial use in the Xe-100 Small Modular Reactor (SMR). (TRISO stands for TRi-structural ISOtropic). This is the first time that TRISO-X fuel pebbles will undergo irradiation testing in a U.S. lab, which is a critical step in meeting requirements set forth by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) for the commercial deployment of advanced reactors that will use the fuel.
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LCG, October 28, 2025--NextEra Energy and Google yesterday announced two agreements that will help meet growing electricity demand from artificial intelligence (AI) with clean, reliable, 24/7 nuclear power and strengthen the nation's nuclear leadership. First, Google signed a new, 25-year agreement for power generated at the Duane Arnold Energy Center, Iowa's only nuclear power facility. The 601-MW boiling water reactor unit was shut down in 2020 and is expected to commence operations by the first quarter of 2029, pending regulatory approvals to restart the plant.
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Industry News
Southeast U.S. Balks at FERC Regional RTO Plan
LCG, Oct. 24, 2001--The plan by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to place the operation of the nation's electric transmission grid in the hands of just four super-regional transmission organizations has drawn fire from market participants in the U.S. Southeast, who say the plan could increase electric rates.State regulators mostly want to keep the regional transmission organizations local, and contend that anything that would increase costs would be a mistake.The Southern Co., which serves nearly 4 million customers through its operating utilities in the Southeast, says combining all the transmission systems in the region into one big RTO would require $3 billion in new transmission infrastructure, and that cost would be passed along to consumers.Ed Holland, an executive vice president of The Southern Co., said of the proposed super-RTO "If the majority of those costs have to be borne by our retail consumers, we are looking at between an 8 and 10 percent increase in rates."That's too much for Stan Wise, a member of the Georgia Public Service Commission. "We have low prices, we have reliable service, and we have a good system," he said. "We think the (FERC) process has been a little heavy handed and certainly without any consideration to what either the cost or cost savings are going to be with this new process."Holland agreed. "It's when we get to what is the proper size and configuration (of the super-RTO) that we don't feel like appropriate analysis has been done," he said.Wise was probably speaking for most state regulators in the Southeast when he said "If the average ratepayer in my state has to pay more to promote retail competition, I am most certainly not in favor of it."
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UPLAN-NPM
The Locational Marginal Price Model (LMP) Network Power Model
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UPLAN-ACE
Day Ahead and Real Time Market Simulation
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UPLAN-G
The Gas Procurement and Competitive Analysis System
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PLATO
Database of Plants, Loads, Assets, Transmission...
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