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In April, L&H said the collaborative effort—harnessed by a framework laid by INL’s Frontier’s Initiative and the WEA’s Matching Fund—will focus on the “development and potential deployment” of the BANR in “cogeneration sets.” The effort marks the initiation of a new model of microreactor deployment that will consider the business and financial models required to “meet the energy needs, […]

The effort to bring small-scale, new nuclear technology to states like Wyoming has been dubbed the Frontiers Initiative. Stakeholders in Wyoming, Alaska, Idaho, Louisiana, North Dakota, South Carolina, and Utah have joined as “nuclear energy first mover states,” said Steven Aumeier, senior adviser to strategic programs with INL.

L&H Industrial and BWXT Advanced Technologies have signed a Joint Development Agreement aimed at deploying microreactors to provide heat and power for industrial users. This effort is the result of the groundwork laid by the Idaho National Laboratory’s (INL’s) Frontiers Initiative and the Wyoming Energy Authority (WEA) Governor’s Matching Fund project that is helping pave the way for new models of microreactor deployment.

Gillette-based L&H Industrial Inc., a 60-year-old stalwart industrial machinery company in the coal-rich Powder River Basin, has partnered with nuclear technology innovator BWX Technologies Inc. (BWXT) as part of a blockbuster deal to launch a multibillion-dollar industry in the micro nuclear reactor field.