Projects / prj-purdue-duke-smr
Purdue / Duke Energy SMR feasibility study for the Purdue campus
Feasibility study. Purdue and Duke Energy announced in April 2022 that they would study power from small modular reactors for the West Lafayette campus. No site, design or licence is established.
- Stage
- Announced
- Design
- Design not selected (SMR)
- Technology
- Not selected · unknown
- Operator(s)
- Purdue University
- Vendor(s)
- —
- Location
- Purdue University campus, West Lafayette · United States · precision: undisclosed
Searchable without an invented map pin. - Coordinates
- undisclosed / not plotted
- Electrical capacity
- — · scope: plant
- Thermal capacity
- —
- Modules planned
- —
- Inclusion basis
- smr_by_vendor_claim_with_capacity_check
- Confidence
- low
- Last verified
- 2026-10-02 (publication/verification date)
Milestones & dated events
- No dated milestones recorded yet.
Regulatory actions
- None recorded in this release.
Sources
- Purdue and Duke Energy to explore potential for clean nuclear power source for campus (company_primary, accessed 2026-10-02)