American Nuclear is In the 25-year-old blood of Isaiah Taylor: his great-grandfather worked on the project in Manhattan. In 2023, Taylor, who abandoned high school to work in technology, founded his own nuclear company Valar Atomics. He is currently developing a petite test reactor, named after great -grandfather Taylor. However, the company claims that too burdensome provisions imposed by the American Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), the main regulatory body in nuclear reactions, forced Valar Atomics to develop a test reactor abroad.
At the beginning of April, Valar Atomics, in addition to the next nuclear startup, deep cleft lawsuit against NRC. Lawsuit, originally filed in December by Texas, Utah and the Last Energy nuclear company, blames[ing] The recent design of the nuclear reactor, which rarely happens. “
The United States was historically a global power of nuclear energy, but only Three reactors Over the past 25 years, everything has appeared, delayed and with balloon budgets. Meanwhile, other countries, such as China and South Korea, raced with the construction of reactors of all sizes. Some supporters of nuclearia say that the US regulation system, which imposes bulky requirements and ultra long terms, is largely guilty for this delay-especially when it comes to developing new projects for smaller reactors-that some reactors should be downloaded from the NRC set. But others have concerns about the potential attempts to bypass the country’s nuclear regulations regarding specific projects.
NRC has long been criticized for the time of permission to ultra-Slow, inefficient processes and disputed disputed nuclear companies. “Adjusting relations in the USA have been described as legalistic and nuclear opposite,” says Nick Touran, a licensed nuclear engineer who runs the website What is nuclear. “This is a bit extremely American. In other countries such as France and China, regulatory authorities are more cooperating.”
The claim goes this criticism a step further, claiming that by governing smaller reactors, NRC will incorrectly read key nuclear legislation. In 1954, the Congress was over Atomic Energy Actwhich created contemporary nuclear regulations in the USA. This law required regulations regarding nuclear objects that used nuclear materials “in such a quantity to be vital for joint defense and security” or which use them “in such a way as to influence the health and security of society.”
“We would like the NRC to respect the written law,” says Taylor, who believes that his company’s reactor works beyond this mandate. “He would do it to enable re -innovations. Innovations drive the American economy.”
“NRC will deal with disputes, if necessary, in his court files,” said spokesman for the Scott Burnell We -mail agency.
While we generally consider nuclear reactors as huge power plants, reactors can be much smaller: models known as petite modular reactors or SMR, usually produce third energy a larger reactor, while even smaller reactors known as microactors are designed Small enough to drive through Semitruck. Due to their size, these reactors are by nature less risky than their huge counterparts. There is simply not enough power in SMR on a three mile crash.