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• Atomic Show 100 - Interview with NuScale founders Paul Lorenzini and Jose Reyes

  NuScale Power has been the topic of several recent Atomic Insights posts and also has been mentioned on Idaho Samizdat and on CleanTechnica.com . IMHO this company is big news - it is a venture-funded company with a small nuclear plant design that just may be able begin operating in the commercial market in less than 5 years. (That is my estimate, not the company's.) To give our coverage of this... Posted Aug 02 2008, 06:55 PM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: NuScale

• NuScale Power and Hyperion Power Generation - privately funded, not "extra large"

  Amory Lovins likes to deny the fact that private money is very interested in nuclear technology, while Al Gore is convinced that reactors only come in one size - extra large. Two companies have recently formed that put a lie to both of those theories. NuScale Power and Hyperion Power Generation are both venture funded companies with exciting products in the pipeline. NuScale Power is developing a 45... Posted Aug 01 2008, 04:38 AM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: NuScale

• NuScale's small reactor project in Popular Mechanics

  I have mentioned NuScale's small light water reactor project several times in the past few months. Growing buzz about small reactors that can be built in series production schemes Cookie cutter plants may reduce initial costs of new nuclear power Endurance and resilience - key attributes of an atomic power system Now, the company is getting some real attention from the mainstream media and the... Posted Jul 25 2008, 04:52 AM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: small reactors, NuScale