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NRC approves construction permit for Dow and X-energy's Texas nuclear plant

Backing the Long Mott project

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission issued a construction permit on November 9 for Long Mott Generating Station: four Xe-100 reactors on Dow's Seadrift chemical complex in Calhoun County, Texas. It is the agency's first construction permit for a high-temperature gas-cooled reactor in nearly 60 years, and its first for an advanced reactor built to serve a factory rather than a grid.

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