US Nuclear Industry Chief Excited About Breakthroughs on the Horizon

by Long Islander

on Thursday

Todd Abrajano tells The Epoch Times that first-generation small modular reactors will be ‘online by the end of the decade or early 2030s.’

John Haughey
11/27/2025

Projects in Texas and Tennessee are on the cusp of delivering first-generation small modular reactor (SMR) prototypes designed to eventually be mass-produced and make nuclear power the “energy of the future,” an industry insider told The Epoch Times.

“We’re going to start seeing SMRs come online by the end of the decade or early 2030s,” said United States Nuclear Industry Council CEO Todd Abrajano.

In the November interview, Abrajano updated breakthroughs in nuclear fuel development, advanced reactor designs, and “first-mover” innovations spurred by federal and state investments and policy inducements.

Abrajano, who assumed leadership of the Washington-based council in January 2023, said at least three new technologies developed by the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Reactor Pilot Program, and accelerated under May executive orders issued by President Donald Trump, could “achieve criticality”—sustained energy generation—“by July 4 of next year for the 250th celebration of America.”
Among advances in expanding inexpensive, carbon-free, and transportable nuclear energy, he said, are intensifying initiatives in recycling spent nuclear fuel and creating an ample domestic supply of high-assay, low-enriched uranium (HALEU), “a fuel that isn’t yet available at a commercial scale,” he said, but is a linchpin in building SMRs that generate more power with less fuel.
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  • Penny Gray

    Better late than never.  Bring it on!

    yesterday