This spring the Nuclear Regulatory Commission approved a design from Oregon’s NuScale Power for a 77 megawatt nuclear reactor. The company is already underway designing for a site in Romania and says they have received interest from numerous U.S. companies. Amazon has said it wants to build small-scale nuclear reactors along the Columbia River in the Pacific Northwest to power AI data centers.

We talk to José Reyes about the company’s design and their vision for what small-scale nuclear power could look like.

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