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US and Korea earmark up to $120B for eight reactors, with no sites named
South Korea and the United States announced Project Power on September 30, 2026, a framework to build six Westinghouse AP1000 and two APR1400 reactors in the US with $120 billion of Korea's $200 billion investment ceiling, including $20 billion of contingency, and agreed to cooperate on a $10 billion advance payment by year-end aimed at long-lead items. No specific sites, owners or power buyers are named; Westinghouse's shareholders call the terms non-binding, Brookfield cites a 5% to 10% Korean stake in Westinghouse, and Cameco puts the APR1400 waiver at about $2 billion of value per reactor.
KIMM demonstrates ammonia heat pump cooling from 40°C waste heat
The Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials announced on August 5, 2026 that it demonstrated a chemical adsorption heat pump providing cooling from waste heat of approximately 40°C, well below the 70°C-plus that conventional adsorption systems require. Samjung Tech built a 10 kW-class prototype, and KIMM says the redesigned adsorption bed reaches a specific cooling power of 346.5 W/kg, more than twice that of comparable international technologies.
