NRC Backs Fermi's Four Texas Reactors

NRC Backs Fermi's Four Texas Reactors Fermi America's nuclear plans just cleared their first regulatory hurdle. NRC staff have preliminarily recommended issuing combined licenses for four Westinghouse AP1000 reactors at Project Matador, Fermi's planned power and AI campus outside Amarillo, Texas, according to a draft environmental impact statement the agency put out for comment on October 9th. Together, the four units would add over 4.4 GW of nuclear generation capacity to the private grid. It took 15 months from application, and Fermi wrote the draft itself as the first test of an NRC...