Going Nuclear. Next Generation Reactors.
Forget wind and solar. The next generation nuclear reactors may be the way to go. Smaller, less expensive to build and maintain, and not dependent on the weather.
When completed, the nation’s first grid-scale advanced nuclear reactor will power a 4,700-acre facility that produces plastics and other materials used in dozens of products.
Dow Chemical and the nuclear energy engineering firm X-energy submitted a construction permit this week to the federal government for a small modular reactor, or SMR, at Dow’s Seadrift, Texas, manufacturing site. The reactor will replace an aging natural gas plant and eliminate nearly all greenhouse gas emissions.
