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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
Watkins Says Enron Partnerships Common Knowledge
LCG, Feb. 15, 2002--Partnerships approved by senior executives at Enron were kept in place by intimidation and deception, company executive Sherron Watkins testified at a hearing of a House Energy investigations subcommittee.In a meeting with chairman Ken Lay in August, Watkins brought up her concerns that losses were being improperly hidden through outside partnerships that were financed using Enron's own stock. Lay, Watkins thought, "didn't understand the gravity of the situation." In talking to other employees, Watkins found that the partnerships were considered to lack a solid foundation, but criticism of their risks met with intimidation from chief executive Jeffrey Skilling and chief financial officer Andrew Fastow. She further testified that Skiling, who claimed ignorance of any accounting misdeeds in testimony last week, "did dupe Ken Lay and the board," and that she would be incredulous if Skilling were not aware of Fastow's practices.Watkins' meeting with Lay took place, Watkins said, when she learned that Fastow might be chosen to replace Skilling as chief executive after Skilling's sudden resignation. Fastow had alllegedly demanded that she be fired after he learned of her meeting with Lay.According to Bruce Hiler, Mr. Skilling's lawyer, "everything she said about my client is based either on hearsay, rumor or opinion." Accountant Arthur Andersen's spokesman Patrick Dorton said that Watkins, who worked at Arthur Andersen earlier in her career, "was not in a position to form judgments" concerning Andersen's professional advice to Enron.
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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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