In 2024, O’Quinn also championed legislation thatallows APCo to charge customersfor costs of developing a small modular nuclear reactor. Hackworth also supported this new burden on ratepayers, though Morefield did not. This year, the Commission on Electric Utility Regulation is promotinglegislationt...
The evolution of the Virginia class has also resulted in progressively more capable submarines. The submarines through the Block IV boats have the same dimensions. Replacing the 12 single-purpose small diameter VLS missile tubes in the bow section with the simpler two large-diameter VPTs, allows f...
“Across the country, developments in new reactor designs and fuel technology are leading a resurgence in advanced manufacturing and clean power generation,” said April Wade, Executive Director of the Virginia Nuclear Energy Consortium, a group representing nuclear industry stakeholders and universities a...
Yet Governor Glenn Youngkin has beenpushing to downplay solar and windand add more nuclear to the state’s energy mix instead. Given that the nation’s first small modular nuclear reactor is not expected to become operational until2029, clean energy advocates wonder why Youngki...