Big scoop this morning: The Trump administration has held talks with Westinghouse's rivals to discuss potentially funding construction of large reactors *other than the AP1000*. The move comes as the Energy Department grows frustrated that it hasn't reached a deal yet to fund another large reactor with a settled design. So officials from the agency met with executives from GE Hitachi to talk about bringing back the ABWR, the nearly 1.4-gigawatt beast of a design with a great record of running for decades Japan. Likewise, the administration met with the South Korean government to discuss the possibility of building that country's lead third-generation large reactor, the APR-1400. There are big questions around both designs, but one thing is sure: Like the AP1000, both are already certified to be built in the U.S. https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/nuclear/trump-admin-courts-westinghouse-rivals