{"id":379050,"date":"2020-10-17T10:35:37","date_gmt":"2020-10-17T05:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=379050"},"modified":"2020-10-17T11:54:33","modified_gmt":"2020-10-17T06:24:33","slug":"trump-administration-approves-1-35-billion-for-small-scale-nuclear-reactor-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/trump-administration-approves-1-35-billion-for-small-scale-nuclear-reactor-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump administration approves $1.35 billion for small-scale nuclear reactor project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON: The U.S. Department of Energy on Friday approved $1.35 billion over 10 years for the building of the first U.S. small-scale nuclear power project, giving a boost to a project struggling with cost overruns and delays. <\/p>\n<p>The award, which depends on annual congressional appropriations, was announced by the Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems NSE 0.00 % (UAMPS), a consortium of cities, many of which would buy power generated by NuScale Power LLC&#8217;s project. <\/p>\n<p>The DOE has pumped about $280 million since 2013 into the project involving 12 small reactors, slated to be built at its Idaho National Laboratory site. <\/p>\n<p>NuScale&#8217;s technology is regarded by some as a potential source of critical carbon-free power that grids will need to supplement intermittent sources like wind and solar. NuScale, based in Portland, Oregon, is majority-owned by construction and engineering firm Fluor Corp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON: The U.S. Department of Energy on Friday approved $1.35 billion over 10 years for the building of the first U.S. small-scale nuclear power project, giving a boost to a project struggling with cost overruns and delays. The award, which depends on annual congressional appropriations, was announced by the Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems NSE 0.00 % (UAMPS), a consortium of cities, many of which would buy power generated by NuScale Power LLC&#8217;s project. The DOE has pumped about $280 million since 2013 into the project involving 12 small reactors, slated to be built at its Idaho National Laboratory site. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,239,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-379050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}