The US Department of Energy (DOE) on 24 March re-issued a $900m (€831m) solicitation to support the deployment of Generation III+ small modular reactors (SMRs).
The DOE said in a statement that the new solicitation would “better align with president Donald Trump’s bold agenda to unleash American energy and AI dominance”.
It gave no further details of the differences between the solicitations, although the re-issued solicitation specifies light-water reactor (LWR) technology as the type to be deployed.
The original solicitation was issued by the former administration in October 2024.
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