The Future of Nuclear Power

A number of companies have been working on a new solution to this relatively old nuclear technology. They've come up with something called Small Modular Reactors or SMRs. One is currently being built in Wyoming constructed by a company called TerraPower for around four billion dollars. There's another one in Idaho Falls, Idaho too. That should come online by the year 2030 at a cost of around nine billion dollars. And then last but not least, we've got news from the company Westinghouse. So yesterday they announced a new SMR design. It's kind of like the mini-me version of the reactor design that I mentioned was built in Georgia. Well, this sort of smaller mini