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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
Who Gets Hit with Enron Fallout
LCG, Nov. 30, 2001--For the past few days, energy companies and financial institutions have been cranking out press releases detailing their "exposure" to the stunning collapse of Enron Corp. Here is an incomplete list of who gets hurt and how much:- Aquila Inc. - less than $50 million.
- Allegheny Energy Inc. - less than $5 million.
- American Electric Power Co. - under $50 million.
- BP Plc - exposure "a couple of tens of million dollars," according to industrial observers.
- Barclays Bank - 400 million ($571 million U.S.) in the form of syndicated loans and derivatives.
- Bear Stearns Cos. Inc. - $69 million.
- Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce - $215 million, more than half of it unsecured.
- Centrica Plc - 30 million ($42.8 million U.S.).
- Chubb Corp. - $220 million in maximum pre-tax exposure to surety bonds relating to Enron Corp.
- Citigroup Inc. - between $700 million to $800 million, about half unsecured.
- Credit Lyonnais - $250 million, about half unsecured.
- Commerzbank AG - "low double-digit million dollar amount".
- Deutsche Bank - maximum loss of tens of millions of dollars.
- Dominion Resources Inc. - past credit exposure of $11 million.
- Duke Energy Corp. - $100 million in non-secured exposure.
- Dynegy Inc. - $75 million.
- El Paso Corp. - net trading exposure about $50 million.
- Energen Corp. - about $14 million.
- Exelon Corp.- net exposure less than $10 million.
- ING (The Netherlands) - about $195 million.
- J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. - $900 million, including $400 million in secured loans.
- KeySpan Corp. - less than $4 million.
- Mirant - up to $60 million.
- NRG Energy Inc. - less than $10 million.
- Northern Border Partners LP - $9 million over next year.
- PPL Inc. - less than $10 million.
- Peoples Energy Corp. - approximately $8 million.
- RWE AG - 10-11 million euros ($9.77 million U.S.).
- Reliant Resources Inc. - approximately $80 million.
- Sempra Energy - less than $15 million.
- Seneca Resources Corp. - about $10.4 million.
- TotalFinaElf - $25 million.
- Williams Cos. - net exposure less than $100 million.
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