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Entergy mulls expanding United States nuclear power capacity, execs say

Entergy is thinking about broadening its nuclear power generation capacity and exploring new nuclear innovations, with the Louisiana electric utility mulling building a brand-new reactor in Mississippi and updating existing plants, company executives said on Thursday.

The U.S. nuclear power industry is seeing a revival, after decades of floundering, in light of rising electricity demand and the large energy needs of Big Tech's AI information centers.

Entergy, which offers electricity to parts of Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas, is checking out numerous operations for growing its roughly 5,000 megawatts (MW) of nuclear capability, executives with the company stated on an earnings call.

The business has an early site authorization, released by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in 2007, for a possible brand-new reactor at its Grand Gulf nuclear website in Mississippi.

Entergy said it is also thinking about upgrading its existing nuclear plants to increase overall capability by as much as 300 MW in a process referred to as uprating.

Those uprates would likely happen at Entergy's. Arkansas and Louisiana plants and not at its Grand Gulf plant,. executives stated.

Longer-term, Entergy is taking a look at helping to establish. new nuclear technologies.

The company likewise has a memorandum of comprehending with. Holtec to examine using small modular reactors in. Entergy's service.

The energy is in several market working groups about. the advancement of those small reactors, which have never been. built in the United States. It remains in separate state working. groups in Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi about expanding. nuclear power.

(source: Reuters)