{"id":436525,"date":"2026-08-18T19:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T19:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/436525\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T19:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T19:20:09","slug":"floating-nuclear-reactors-could-be-coming-to-long-beach-port-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/436525\/","title":{"rendered":"Floating Nuclear Reactors Could Be Coming To Long Beach Port: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One prominent U.S. effort collapsed in 2023, when NuScale Power and Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nuscalepower.com\/press-releases\/2023\/utah-associated-municipal-power-systems-and-nuscale-power-agree-to-terminate-the-carbon-free-power-project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">terminated plans<\/a> for a project at Idaho National Laboratory after determining it was unlikely to secure enough subscribers.<\/p>\n<p>The project had also suffered steep cost increases. An <a href=\"https:\/\/ieefa.org\/resources\/eye-popping-new-cost-estimates-released-nuscale-small-modular-reactor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">analysis<\/a> by the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis found estimated construction costs had risen from $5.3 billion to $9.3 billion.<\/p>\n<p>The federal government, however, is pushing aggressively to expand nuclear energy. President Donald Trump signed four nuclear-related <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/releases\/2025\/05\/president-trump-signs-executive-orders-to-usher-in-a-nuclear-renaissance-restore-gold-standard-science\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">executive orders<\/a> in May 2025, and the Department of Energy in May <a href=\"https:\/\/www.energy.gov\/articles\/energy-department-awards-94-million-american-companies-help-expedite-deployments-small\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">awarded more<\/a> than $94 million to eight companies working on advanced light-water SMR deployment, manufacturing and supply-chain projects. Bluecore also faces a complicated regulatory path.<\/p>\n<p>The Nuclear Regulatory Commission had received no application for a maritime reactor at the Port of Long Beach as of Aug. 7, according to the Press-Enterprise. Bluecore was scheduled to meet with the commission Monday to introduce the company, outline its regulatory strategy and present a conceptual overview of its design.<\/p>\n<p>California law presents another significant obstacle. The state has restricted construction and licensing of new nuclear fission reactors since 1976 until the federal government implements a long-term solution for radioactive waste. A recent California Energy Commission report says use of SMRs in the state would require either a change in state policy or such a federal solution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One prominent U.S. effort collapsed in 2023, when NuScale Power and Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems terminated plans&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":436526,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-436525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}