The Seattle Times
By Shannon Dininny
A consortium of Western utilities and a designer of nuclear reactors have submitted a proposal to the U.S. Department of energy to build a small nuclear reactor in order to meet the future demand for carbon-free energy.
The proposal seeks millions of dollars in grants for the vigorous project through licensing and permitting processes, which takes years to walk. Earlier a reactor would be built is probably 2023.
Among the participants: Northwest Energy, a consortium of public power which runs on nuclear energy only commercial plant in the Northwest and had once gone to the largest municipal bond default in American history on a project failed to build five nuclear reactors in the 1980s.
Energy Northwest has previously issued the prospect of increasing its production of nuclear 27 public members and municipalities.
The idea has stalled in the past due to the high financial investment required and the backlash against nuclear energy in one of the more environmentally friendly areas of the country.
This time, Northwest energy has partnered with the Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems and modular reactor designer NuScale Power, based in Corvallis, Oregon
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