Key Issues

NGNP Industry Alliance Awarded DOE Contract for High Temperature Gas-Cooled Reactor (HTGR) Technologies Analysis and Studies, Next Generation Nuclear Plant Industry Alliance press release, January 24, 2013

Minnesota Public Radio:  Are Mini-Reactors The Future Of Nuclear Power?, February 4, 2013

Nature, International Weekly Journal of Science:  Nuclear Energy:  Radical Reactors, December 5, 2012

USA Today:  Nuclear Industry Looks Toward Smaller Reactors, November 27, 2012

CNN:  U.S. Backs Project for Small Nuclear Reactors, November 21, 2012

Lynchburg News & Advance [VA]:  New center aims to help B&W make fuel for its small reactor design, July 30, 2012

Cleveland Plain Dealer:  FirstEnergy looking into buying small nuclear reactor from Babcock & Wilcox, July 25, 2012

Mid-Missouri Public Radio:  Task force created to try to secure Westinghouse nuclear project funding, July 23, 2012

The State [South Carolina]:  Support for mini-nuclear reactors gaining steam in SC, June 19, 2012

Tri-City Herald [WA]:  Small modular reactor proposed at nuclear plant, June 7, 2012

New York Times (Green Blog):  Will The Stars Align for Small Nuclear Reactors?, April 26, 2012

Scientific American:  Small Reactors Make a Bid to Revive Nuclear Power, March 27, 2012

Toledo Blade:  Small reactors may be key to nuclear power's future, March 11, 2012

Popular Mechanics:  Next Up in Nuclear:  Small Modular Reactors, January 28, 2012

Discover Magazine:  4 Bold Ideas to Make America's Energy Supply Safer, Cleaner & Virtually Inexhaustible, November 2011

New York Times / Greenwire:  DOE Champions 'Game Changing' Small Nuclear Reactors, July 21, 2011

National Public Radio: Is the Future of Nuclear Power in Minireactors? June 6, 2011 (story and audio)

HDNet Video: Dan Rather interviews Dr. Ernest Moniz on Small Reactors, March 1, 2011

Bloomberg: Small Nuclear Reactors May Spur Factory Jobs, Exports, U.S. Says, February 16, 2011

New York Times: Administration to Push for Small 'Modular' Reactors, February 12, 2011

Energy Secretary Chu: Video at "Energy Matters" Town Hall, January 26, 2011

Nuclear Energy Insight:  Small Packages with a Big Future, May 2010

Wall Street Journal:  Op-Ed by Energy Secretary Steven Chu on Small Modular Reactors, March 23, 2010

Wall Street Journal:  Small Reactors Generate Big Hopes, February 18, 2010

Governor of South Carolina:  Governor Nikki Haley meets with nuclear industry leaders (Governor Nikki Haley), June 19, 2012

NEI YouTube:  Small Nuclear Reactors:  Small Energy Producers with a Big Future (Paul Genoa, NEI), November 21, 2011

NEI YouTube:  Small Reactors Will Provide Opportunities for Clean, Baseload Power (Paul Genoa, NEI), October 27, 2011

NEI YouTube:  Small Reactors Are the Future of Nuclear Energy (Pierre Oneid, Holtec International), November 2, 2011

NEI YouTube:  Small Reactors Can Create Jobs, Boost American Manufacturing (Dr. Paul Lorenzini, NuScale Power), November 2, 2011

NEI YouTube:  Small Reactors Will Play Important Role in Nuclear Energy's Future, Says Westinghouse CEO (Dr. Aris Candris, Westinghouse), May 11, 2011

NPR:  Science Funding and the Budget, February 18, 2011