To decarbonize and electrify America’s economy, the head of the nation’s biggest public power utility thinks several hundred new nuclear reactors may be needed in the next generation, including 20 or so new smaller reactors across the Tennessee Valley.
In a talk to business investors and nuclear power leaders this week, TVA President Jeff Lyash said the utility’s initial efforts to build small modular reactors near Oak Ridge will serve as a model to construct more than a dozen other such reactors in TVA’s seven-state region. The reactors will help provide around-the-clock, carbon-free energy needed to meet TVA’s goal of operating a carbon-free power grid by 2050.
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