News about small modular reactors: events, facts and developments on tafs uz.
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According to Rosatom, cited by the Dunyo news agency and Kun.uz, two large power units with VVER-1000 reactors will be located next to the small modular reactors under construction at the Jizzakh nuclear power plant. Work at the site is underway: the first concrete foundation slab for the small units was poured in May 2026, and more than a thousand people are working at the construction site.
Otabek YusupovAt a meeting of the US-Uzbekistan Business and Investment Council, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced work on deploying American small modular reactors and modernizing Uzbekistan's power grids. He also named areas of cooperation: critical minerals, quantum technologies, aviation, and investment. He did not specify details of the reactor projects; earlier, Uzatom denied the State Department's report of an obligation to purchase reactors.
Javlon TursunovAmazon will become the first buyer of energy from a planned 960 MW nuclear plant in Indiana, consisting of 12 X-energy Xe-100 small modular reactors. The operator will be American Electric Power. The site is a former coal plant south of Terre Haute. Timelines depend on X-energy's first project in Texas, over which the state has filed a lawsuit.
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