https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/3ad9gw/us-approves-first-nuclear-reactor

Nuclear energy just took a tiny and modular step forward in the United States. The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has approved the design of the first small modular nuclear reactor for use in the U.S. This is only the seventh reactor design cleared for use in the states and the first of a new generation of reactors that promise to make nuclear energy more widely used..

Traditional nuclear reactors are an incredible source of clean energy, but they’re also expensive and take years to build. Recent efforts to build nuclear reactors in America haven’t gone well. Small modular reactors (SMR) can be built faster, cheaper, and take up much less space than the gigantic cooling towers typically associated with nuclear energy.