US EditionDow wants to power its Texas manufacturing complex with new nuclear reactors instead of natural gas
- Long Mott Energy, a subsidiary of Dow, applied to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission on Monday for a construction permit to build a new nuclear power plant in Seadrift, Texas, in partnership with X-energy.
- Driven by the need to meet soaring electricity demands from data centers, AI, manufacturing, and electrification, and to stave off the worst effects of a warming planet, Dow aims to use next-generation nuclear reactors instead of natural gas for clean power and steam at its Texas manufacturing complex.
- The proposed project involves Dow utilizing four of X-energy's Xe-100 advanced small modular reactors, which together could supply up to 320 megawatts of electricity and 800 megawatts of thermal power.
- The plant, if built and operated as planned, would be the first U.S. Commercial advanced nuclear power plant for an industrial site, avoiding roughly 500,000 metric tons of planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions annually, according to the NRC.
- While construction could begin at the end of this decade if a permit is issued and the reactors would be ready early in the 2030s, the Union of Concerned Scientists cautions about safety and security concerns and the unresolved issue of hazardous nuclear waste storage, even as X-energy collaborates with Amazon to bring more than 5 gigawatts of new nuclear power projects online across the United States by 2039, starting in Washington state.
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Ticker: Dow wants to power its Texas manufacturing complex with new nuclear reactors; Rocket buying Mr. Cooper in all-stock deal valued at $9.4B
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Dow company wants to use nuclear reactors instead of natural gas for energy
Dow, a major producer of chemicals and plastics, wants to use next-generation nuclear reactors to get clean energy and steam in a manufacturing complex in Texas instead of natural gas.
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Dow wants to power its Texas manufacturing complex with new nuclear reactors instead of natural gas
Dow, a major producer of chemicals and plastics, wants to use next-generation nuclear reactors for clean power and steam at a Texas manufacturing complex instead of natural gas.
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