The U.S. Department of Energy has announced awards to two teams of industry experts to develop tools to transform the operations and maintenance of advanced nuclear reactors through the use of Artificial Intelligence-enabled digital twins using the GE Hitachi (GEH) BWRX-300 small modular reactor as a reference design. GE Research and MIT have been awarded grants through the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) Generating Electricity Manag Read more...
GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) and Fermi Energia OÜ have agreed to collaborate on potential deployment applications for GEH’s BWRX-300 small modular reactor in Estonia. Fermi Energia is an Estonia-based company established by nuclear industry professionals that is supporting the development of small modular reactors for deployment in Estonia. In a Memorandum of Understanding signed by GEH and Fermi Energia, the companies have agreed to examine the econ Read more...
GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) and TerraPower have announced a collaboration to pursue a Public Private Partnership to design and construct the Versatile Test Reactor (VTR) for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). The two companies recently submitted a joint response to an Expression of Interest issued by the Battelle Energy Alliance (BEA) on behalf of the DOE which seeks stakeholders interested in forming a partnership for a cost sharing arrangement to design and construct the VTR Read more...
