The Nuclear Co. (TNC), a startup that emerged from stealth in 2024 as America’s full-stack nuclear project integrator, is preparing topropose one of the first large-scale conventional reactor buildsin the United States in more than a decade.
According toBloomberg, the company could unveil plansas soon as this week for an AP1000 reactor at one of three potential sites in South Carolina. The move comes as surging electricity demand, fueled largely by AI data centers, forces utilities and developers to confront the limits of today’s grid.
TNC showed up with a design-once, build-many methodology and fresh Series A funding in hand as the firm opened its primary engineering and construction office in Columbia, SC, last year.
Governor Henry McMaster welcomed the move, which is expected to create more than 100 jobs while supporting atargeted 6-gigawatt fleet rollout. South Carolina already generates over half its electricity from nuclear power, boasts established infrastructure, a skilled workforce, and a state leadership clearly committed to expansion.
The timing feels both promising and painfully familiar:
-Justdays agowe asked whether America sits on the verge of a nuclear renaissance
-We have chronicled thehistoric firstfederal approval for novel reactor technology
-The Washington facility isslated to host12 Amazon-funded small modular reactors
-Nano Nuclear’sconstruction permitwas submitted for its Kronos unit in Illinois
-We tracked the steady drumbeat of SMRlicensing approvals
Source: ZeroHedge News
