Tata explores nuclear-powered soda ash plant

Tata Chemicals Soda Ash Partners, a subsidiary of the industrial conglomerate Tata Group, has advanced a plan to power its soda ash plant in Green River, Wyoming, with small modular nuclear reactors from BWXT Advanced Technologies. BWXT is commercializing 50 MW high-temperature gas reactors with support from the US Department of Energy. The two firms have completed feasibility studies and will now negotiate terms for deploying multiple reactors to provide electricity and process heat to the site.