{"id":336,"date":"2025-04-03T21:02:18","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T21:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clojerl.com\/?p=336"},"modified":"2025-06-18T13:02:26","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T13:02:26","slug":"dow-and-x-energy-advance-landmark-nuclear-project-in-texas-with-construction-permit-filing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clojerl.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/03\/dow-and-x-energy-advance-landmark-nuclear-project-in-texas-with-construction-permit-filing\/","title":{"rendered":"Dow and X-energy Advance Landmark Nuclear Project in Texas With Construction Permit Filing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Advanced reactor developer X-energy and global materials science company Dow have submitted a construction permit application (CPA) to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) for a first-of-its-kind small modular reactor (SMR) project at Dow\u2019s Union Carbide Corp. (UCC) Seadrift Operations in Calhoun County, Texas. The filing marks a major step forward for the much-watched commercial-scale [\u2026]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.powermag.com\/dow-and-x-energy-advance-landmark-nuclear-project-in-texas-with-construction-permit-filing\/\">Dow and X-energy Advance Landmark Nuclear Project in Texas With Construction Permit Filing<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.powermag.com\">POWER Magazine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image lazyload\" alt=\"X-energy\u2019s Xe-100 is a high-temperature gas-cooled reactor (HTGR) that operates at over 750C. Its fuel system uses 200,000 continuously cycling pebbles, each embedded with 18,000 TRISO particles, containing a uranium core protected by carbon layers. The compact design contains over 99.99% of byproducts, reducing the need for large containment structures. Helium, which absorbs heat without becoming radioactive, drives the reactor\u2019s steam turbine. The reactor has a 60-year-lifetime, producing baseload, carbon-free power. Courtesy: X-energy\" loading=\"lazy\" data-src=\"https:\/\/clojerl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/xe-100-reactor-overview-scaled-1.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Advanced reactor developer X-energy and global materials science company Dow have submitted a construction permit application (CPA) to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) for a first-of-its-kind small modular reactor (SMR) project at Dow\u2019s Union Carbide Corp. (UCC) Seadrift Operations in Calhoun County, Texas. The filing marks a major step forward for the much-watched commercial-scale&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":338,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-connected-plant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clojerl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clojerl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clojerl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clojerl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clojerl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/clojerl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":339,"href":"https:\/\/clojerl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions\/339"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clojerl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clojerl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clojerl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clojerl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}