Other plans
In March 2012, NuScale signed an agreement with DOE that allowed NuScale and two partners to build and operate a NuScale-based nuclear power plant at a Savannah River site in South Carolina.[61] The following month, Energy Northwest said it had no immediate plans to construct a nuclear power plant, but had evaluated all the available SMR technologies and identified NuScale as the best available option.[62][63]
In July 2013, NuScale announced an effort to demonstrate NuScale reactors in the western United States, called Program WIN (Western Initiative for Nuclear),[32] with plans to build the first NuScale-based power plant there by 2024.[15]
In January 2018, the NRC agreed that the passive safety features allow NuScale's SMR design to operate safely without back-up power.[64]
In August 2020, the NRC issued a final safety evaluation report, certifying the design as having met safety requirements.[19][65][66]
In February 2022, NuScale and mining conglomerate KGHM announced a contract to construct an SMR in Poland by 2029.[67] In April 2023, an application for a decision-in-principle to permit the project was submitted to the Polish government.[68]
In January 2023, the NRC certified NuScale's 50 MWe design, known as the VOYGR, for use in the US.[69] However this was for an earlier version of the design to the current 77 MWe design. The module and plant designs were resubmitted to the NRC in January 2023 for NuScale Power's four and six-reactor configurations, known as VOYGR-4 (US300) and VOYGR-6 (US460).[70] In its acceptance review of the application, the NRC identified a number of sufficiency issues in the application, and requested supplemental information be supplied before NRC staff could accept the application for docketing and detailed technical review.[71] The supplemental information was supplied in July 2023, and the NRC estimated the evaluation would be complete in July 2025.[72] In May 2025, NuScale successfully obtained NRC-US licensing for their 77 MWe module and the two new plant configurations.[73]
On August 29, 2024, Nuclear Power Ghana and Regnum Technology Group signed an agreement to build a 12-module nuclear power plant in Ghana during the US-Africa Nuclear Energy Summit in Nairobi, Kenya.[74] In January 2025, an SMR simulator training centre was opened in Ghana, to train and educate the next generation in operating future civil nuclear reactors.[75]
In 2023, NuScale submitted a new design for NRC approval to license its VOYGR-12. As of 2025, the 12-module, 924 MWe reactor design remains under NRC review.[4]
In June 2025, NuScale announced new research findings showing how their plants can be used in clean water, reverse osmosis and hydrogen generation applications. Simulations showed a single NuScale Power Module could yield approximately 150 million gallons of clean water per day without generating carbon dioxide. 12 NPMs would be able to provide desalinated water for a city of 2.3 million residents and 200 metric tons of hydrogen per day or a surplus of power to provide 400,000 homes with electricity.[76]
