Happy Wednesday!
By now you probably realize we
like energy as well as tie-ins to our previous blogs. We blogged about nuclear energy starting to
catch on in Texas back last November and we had an update in May with our Texas
Legislature adding to its agenda discussions on nuclear energy. In the same Blog, we updated you on the buzz of
a nuclear project at Abilene Christian University (ACU) and their secondary
joint project with Texas Tech University (TTU), and Texas Produced Water
Consortium using nuclear energy to power TTU’s produced water desalination
system project. We blogged on how Texas A&M had chosen some projects for
their Rellis Campus, and well as applied for licensing from the U.S. Nuclear
Regulatory Commission for the site. Several
of these companies have projects here in Texas as we have mentioned in previous
blogs! Well, America is getting real on
nuclear energy with the current administration throwing some support their
way.
Did anyone happen to read EnergyTech’s
Transition Newsletter on August 18, 2025, their article titled, “DOE
Names 10 Companies to Fast-Track Small Modular Reactors by 2026”? In the article, it speaks on how the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) “Reactor Pilot Program” have selected ten nuclear
energy new ventures to help them fast track permitting and other governmental assistance
for their small modular reactors (SMR) and other innovative reactor ventures as
well as helping them by placing their support behind them to help them unlock
private money. In addition to helping
the projects move their projects along the governmental gauntlet, the start-ups
will in turn will have their projects self-sustaining or at least three of them
by Independence Day of next year. The
projects will have the burden of covering all their expenses associated with
their projects including but not limited to installation and building their
projects to taking them down and disposing of their trial model. The new ventures who were chosen include: Aalo
Atomics, Antares Nuclear Inc., Atomic Alchemy Inc., Deep Fission Inc., Last
Energy Inc., Oklo Inc. (2 projects chosen), Natura Resources LLC, Radiant
Industries Inc., Terrestrial Energy Inc., and Valar Atomics Inc. These recipients
do not have a lot of time nonetheless they have the faith of the DOE behind
them!
The DOE is hoping these companies
will show how with an innovation one may bring commercial scale nuclear energy projects
within reasonable budgets and timelines unlike past nuclear energy
projects. Earlier this year the current
administration called for modernizing current nuclear policy to improve
timelines for permitting and licensing.
We wish all these new ventures luck bringing their innovations to the
light or should we say turning on the light! If you would like to read more of
the article from EnergyTech, please click the link: DOE Names 10 Companies to Fast-Track Small Modular Reactors by 2026 | EnergyTech.
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