A compact, transportable nuclear reactor may come to Utah under new agreement

By: Alixel Cabrera

Outlets: Utah News Dispatch

Published: August 6, 2026

Words: 406

Last Updated: 1 week, 6 days ago

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A micro nuclear reactor may be coming to Utah as the state’s Office of Energy Development announced it signed an agreement with Nuclea Energy, a Canadian nuclear technology developer, to explore siting a test reactor in central Utah.

Morpheus, the microreactor Nuclea Energy is developing, is “designed to be factory-built, transportable and scalable from approximately 3.5 MWe to 50 MWe,” the company said in a news release.

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