Programmes and agreements / prg-us-cvea-usnc-mmr-feasibility

Copper Valley Electric Association and Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation Micro Modular Reactor feasibility study (Alaska)

Copper Valley Electric Association and Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation agreed in 2022 to study the feasibility of building a first commercial Micro Modular Reactor installation in Alaska, projected at 10 MWe, for the cooperative that serves the Valdez-Glennallen region. The study was to determine location, cost and social acceptance, no site, licence application or later decision appears in the sources read.

Not a deployment project. SMR plans, agreements, studies and government programmes that are not (yet) a single deployment project. They are listed separately and are never counted as projects or reactors.

Type

Feasibility or siting study

Countries concerned

United States

Region named by the sources

Alaska

Participants and roles

• Host or customer: Copper Valley Electric Association
• Developer or vendor: Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation

Designs named

Global First Power Micro Modular Reactor

Scale as stated

projected 10 MWe micro facility

Announced or first reported

Feb 2022

Status

Status not established
Feasibility study expected to take 4-6 months (2022), outcome not found in the sources read, no site named.

Confidence

low

Last checked

2026-10-14 (record review date, not proof of current activity)

Related deployment projects

• No related deployment project is recorded here.

Sources

• Feasibility study for microreactor in Alaska (reputable_press, published 8 Feb 2022, accessed 2026-10-14)