NEW YORK — Despite the recent cancellation of a next-generation U.S. nuclear plant, backers of the carbon-free power source remain hopeful new projects will come on line by the end of the decade. Late last year, the U.S. energy company NuScale announced it was pulling the plug on a small modular reactor (SMR) project in the western state of Idaho. The project — the sole SMR design yet to be approved by the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission — faced exploding costs that took the estimated price... Read this story
