U.S. Sens. Jim Risch (R-ID) and Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) on Feb. 10 introduced the Accelerating Reliable Capacity (ARC) Act, which would authorize federal backstop authority to help utilities and reactor operators cover cost overruns of advanced nuclear reactor projects.

NuScale Power on Feb. 12 said that it will partner with Oak Ridge National Laboratory to utilize an artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled nuclear design framework for a 12-NuScale Power Module™ (NPM) configuration "to strategically explore how fuel could be even more efficiently and effectively managed across multiple reactors at a single site."

City Water, Light and Power employees achieved a major safety milestone in 2025, recording the lowest accident rate in the utility’s history and sending more employees home safely at the end of each workday, the Illinois public power utility reported in late January.

The U.S. Department of Energy on Feb. 11 announced $175 million in funding for six projects to modernize, retrofit, and extend the useful life of coal-fired power plants that serve rural and remote communities across the United States.