Dow's Corpus Christi project highlights challenge of nuclear energy's revival

WASHINGTON — If all goes to plan, a Dow Chemical plant north of Corpus Christi will be home to four small-scale, gas-cooled nuclear reactors that the Biden administration hopes will herald a new age of nuclear energy in the United States.

The project, in which Dow has partnered with the Maryland-based technology firm X-Energy, is scheduled to be operational by 2030. But before that can happen, the companies will need to not only navigate a federal regulatory process that has never licensed a reactor of the type they are building but do so without a guaranteed source of the uranium they need.

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