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The country’s first expected<br />
commercial small modular reactor<br />
was scrapped by NuScale Power on<br />
Wednesday, delivering a major<br />
By Zach Bright<br />
setback to the advanced nuclear<br />
industry.<br />
NuScale and the Utah Associated<br />
Municipal Power Systems (UAMPS),<br />
a group of local electric utilities that<br />
had agreed to purchase power from<br />
the project, mutually decided to<br />
terminate what was known as the<br />
Carbon Free Power Project (CFPP),<br />
according to a news release. NuScale<br />
is the only U.S. developer with a<br />
design approved by the Nuclear<br />
Regulatory Commission (NRC) for a<br />
small modular reactor (SMR).<br />
The project was supposed to<br />
consist of six 77-megawatt SMRs,<br />
generating a total of 462 MW, and<br />
come online in 2029. It was to be<br />
located near Idaho Falls, Idaho, at<br />
the Department of Energy’s Idaho<br />
National Laboratory.<br />
DOE said it had provided $232<br />
million for the project since 2020,<br />
before federal infrastructure and<br />
This artist's rendering shows a prospective NuScale Power small modular nuclear reactor site.<br />
Continued on page 30.<br />
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