https://renewability.net/tags/smr/ Recent content in SMR on Renewability.net Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://renewability.net/nuclear-renaissance-deadline-reactors-race-to-criticality-ahead-of-july-4-executive-order-target/ Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://renewability.net/nuclear-renaissance-deadline-reactors-race-to-criticality-ahead-of-july-4-executive-order-target/ President Trump’s Executive Order 14301, “Reforming Nuclear Reactor Testing at the Department of Energy,” attached a hard deadline to America’s nuclear ambitions: at least three participants in the Department of Energy’s Reactor Pilot Program were meant to achieve criticality by July 4, 2026. That deadline has now passed, and it functions as a real-time stress test of how fast the “nuclear renaissance” rhetoric can translate into operating reactors. The pilot program mechanism.