Constellation's Nuclear Plants to Provide Power for US Government Agencies

The idea here is that Constellation will add 1.1 GW of additional capacity and will sell this to the US Government. The additional capacity is done by power uprating their existing nuclear power plants. A nuclear reactor does not really have a limit of how much power it can produce, you can slowly increase the reactivity in the reactor until you double, triple, or multiply by one hundred the amount of fission that happens in the core per unit of time. The problem is how to remove the heat. You just need to pump proportionally more water through the core. But that's not easy. Still, it can be done, and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission is able to oversee and approve the uprate. Of course, we are not talking about factors of 100, or even of 2, but a 20% increase is doable. The NRC offers more details here

https://www.nrc.gov/reactors/operating/licensing/power-uprat...

The DoD is developing their own (mobile) nuclear reactor in partnership with BWXT (which won the design competition):

* https://www.cto.mil/pele_eis/

* https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/391563...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pele

Interview with the program manager of the project, Jeff Waksman:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ij8z5WZbEg

From TA

> Constellation and its partners will add approximately 1,100 MW of clean energy by 2028, enough energy to power over one million homes.

And

> A portion of the power will come from investments Constellation will make to increase output at its nuclear plants.

Anyone know where the rest of the promised energy comes from? Building a new plant takes a long time...

Before Trump comes in power, suddenly Biden administration is doing lots of things Trump would have done

Is it just me or are they trying to take credit ?