Leading small modular nuclear reactor will be late and over budget
Verified: 2 outlets have reported this story since Nov 10, 2 of them from the United States.
North America’s first small modular reactor project is running into two familiar challenges for the nuclear industry: timing and cost. Ontario Power Generation said in a Tuesday earnings release that the first BWRX-300 unit at its Darlington site will not come online by its October 2030 target and will blow past its…
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2 outlets from the United States, where the story is: Canary Media, TechCrunch · how we count
- Nov 10, 8:46 PM UTCFirst reportX-energy gets green light to build its first small modular nuclear reactorstechcrunch.com ↗
- Nov 11, 7:57 PM UTC+23 h· you’re reading thisLeading small modular nuclear reactor will be late and over budgetcanarymedia.com ↗
- Verified: a second independent outlet reported itNov 11, 8:35 PM UTC · +24 h
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