Copper Valley Electric's shelved nuclear reactor study
Copper Valley Electric studied putting a 10 megawatt micro modular reactor into its isolated Glennallen and Valdez system, which is connected to no other utility and burns liquid fossil fuel for roughly a third of its power. The cooperative finished a pre feasibility study, published it, and then tabled the project indefinitely.
How the public reaches this
Copper Valley Electric is a member owned cooperative, so its board answers to ratepayers who elect it. The project is tabled, so there is nothing before the board to comment on now.
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2026-08-06 Added as a closed item, because a reader asked for its approval timeline and there is none. The cooperative's own project record is headed that the micro modular nuclear reactor project was tabled indefinitely, dated August 9th, 2023, and the completed pre feasibility study is posted publicly beside it. The study partner, Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation, filed for Chapter 11 on October 29th, 2024, and its micro modular reactor business was sold to another company in December 2024. Recording it here rather than leaving it out, because what a utility considered and shelved is part of the record, and a reader looking for this timeline deserves to find the answer rather than nothing.
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