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March 29, 2026

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West Texas Is Building Its Own Grid, One Hyperscale Campus at a Time

TerraPower's Natrium reactor won NRC construction permit approval for Kemmerer Power Station Unit 1 in Wyoming in roughly 18 months, well ahead of the projected 27 months and a decade faster than Vogtle's 15-year ordeal.

March 19, 2026

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Communities Aren't Anti-Datacenter. They're Anti-Surprise.

The nuclear component is the wildcard: Fermi hasn't named a reactor partner, disclosed NRC pre-approval status, or detailed water rights in the Panhandle's stressed Ogallala Aquifer region.

March 3, 2026

Meanwhile, a four-reactor SMR proposal from Dow and X-energy in Calhoun County, Texas hit a wall when the NRC's Atomic Safety and Licensing Board intervened on financial-qualification grounds, injecting fresh uncertainty into nuclear-backed datacenter timelines in the state.

February 17, 2026

The NRC's Atomic Safety and Licensing Board granted an intervention petition against Natura Resources' Texas SMR project this month, a procedural setback that could delay timelines.

February 16, 2026

No reactor vendor, NRC engagement, or permitting timeline has been disclosed for the nuclear component, and a 5GW nuclear buildout would be unprecedented for a company of any size, let alone one that recently rebranded from New Era Helium.

February 11, 2026

The NRC approved a digital modernization plan for Constellation's Limerick Nuclear Power Plant (2,242 MW) in Pennsylvania, and a datacenter has been proposed next door, extending the playbook Constellation pioneered with the Microsoft-Three Mile Island deal.