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NuScale Revenue Falls 99%, Cash Tops $1.9 Billion

NuScale Power's Q2 2026 revenue collapsed to $0.1 million after its Romania engineering contract ended, even as cash reserves swelled to $1.9 billion. The TVA deal remains unsigned.

EnergyBy Servola Tech Desk2026-08-064 min read

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NuScale Revenue Falls 99%, Cash Tops $1.9 Billion

Key takeaways

NuScale's Q2 2026 revenue collapsed 99 percent, from about $8.1 million a year earlier to roughly $0.1 million, once its Fluor-led RoPower engineering contract in Romania ended in late 2025.
Cash and investments climbed to $1.9 billion, up about $900 million from the prior quarter, driven mainly by investment income rather than new project revenue.
Partner ENTRA1 Energy is still negotiating, not signing, a power-purchase agreement with the Tennessee Valley Authority that NuScale says could become the largest nuclear deployment program in US history.
The company with the deepest cash reserves in the SMR sector still has no signed offtake behind its next major US project, a gap that matters more than the balance sheet headline.
EU and UK buyers pencilling SMR nuclear power into capacity plans should treat NuScale's TVA discussions as a pipeline item, not a contracted supply date, until a PPA is actually signed.

NuScale's August 5 results call opens with a near-empty revenue line

On 5 August 2026, NuScale Power Corp, the Oregon-based vendor of small modular reactor (SMR) technology listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker SMR, reported its second-quarter 2026 results. The headline number sat oddly next to the company's balance sheet: quarterly revenue of roughly $0.1 million, a level normally associated with a start-up burning through seed funding, not a company sitting on billions in cash.

The contrast is the story. A year earlier, in the second quarter of 2025, NuScale had booked about $8.1 million in revenue. By the same quarter in 2026, that figure had fallen by roughly 99 percent, according to the company's own results release.

Where the $8.1 million went: a Romanian contract that ended

NuScale's own results release attributed the collapse to the expiry of a front-end engineering design (FEED) contract tied to the RoPower project in Romania. NuScale had been working on that contract alongside engineering group Fluor, and the agreement ran out in late 2025, closing off the revenue stream that had supported the prior year's figures.

No replacement contract of comparable size has yet taken its place, which is why the second-quarter 2026 line is not a rounding error but close to a full stop. For a technology vendor that does not generate electricity or sell power itself, engineering and licensing contracts like the RoPower FEED work are effectively its product - and NuScale currently has a gap where that product used to generate income.

A $1.9 billion balance sheet, built on investment income, not sales

The same results release showed cash and investments reaching $1.9 billion, an increase of about $900 million from the previous quarter. NuScale attributed the jump mainly to investment income, not to new contract revenue - a distinction that matters because it means the company's growing cash pile and its collapsing revenue line are, for now, two separate stories.

That cash gives NuScale runway most SMR competitors do not have. It does not, on its own, describe demand for NuScale's reactor technology. The company's most consequential pending business is not on the balance sheet at all: a possible power-purchase agreement between its partner ENTRA1 Energy and the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), which NuScale describes as a deal that could become the largest nuclear deployment program in US history if it is signed.

The real story is the gap between funding and firm orders

NuScale is, right now, the clearest live case study of a wider pattern in SMR nuclear: heavy capitalization sitting a long way ahead of contracted revenue. A $1.9 billion cash position is a genuine asset, but it is a funding fact, not a demand fact - it says NuScale can survive a long time without new contracts, not that new contracts are close.

The ENTRA1-TVA relationship is the detail worth sitting with. NuScale describes it as being in advanced discussions, and as potentially becoming the largest nuclear deployment program in US history. Both of those things can be true and the agreement can still be unsigned. Advanced discussions are not a power-purchase agreement, and a company's own characterization of a deal's future scale is not evidence that the deal exists yet.

This is not a claim that NuScale is in distress - a $1.9 billion cushion argues against that reading. It is a claim that the sector's most-watched pending deal, at the most capitalized pure-play SMR vendor, remains a negotiation, not a contract, as of this report.

What this means for an EU or UK energy buyer this year

For a data-centre developer or industrial energy buyer in the EU or UK weighing SMR nuclear power into capacity plans for the late 2020s, the practical read as of August 2026 is narrow but useful: even the best-funded SMR vendor in the sector has no signed firm offtake behind its next flagship US deployment. That is a fact about the state of the market, not a comment on any single technology's merits.

Any planning document that treats 'NuScale-TVA' or similarly-billed SMR programs as contracted, dated capacity should be flagged and revised to reflect the status as of this report: in negotiation, unsigned. European SMR programmes remain earlier in their own development and have not yet reached a signed offtake agreement of comparable scale either. A prudent approach is to track the ENTRA1-TVA agreement specifically for a signing announcement, rather than for further statements about its potential scale, before adjusting any procurement timeline that assumes SMR nuclear power will be available on a specific date.

Frequently asked questions

Why did NuScale's revenue fall 99 percent in the second quarter of 2026?

Because a front-end engineering design (FEED) contract with Fluor for the RoPower project in Romania ended in late 2025, and no contract of similar size has replaced it, according to NuScale's own results release.

Does NuScale's falling revenue mean the company is running out of money?

No. NuScale reported cash and investments of $1.9 billion, up about $900 million from the prior quarter, mainly from investment income - the revenue drop and the cash position are separate figures in the same results release.

Has the ENTRA1-TVA power-purchase agreement been signed?

No. As of this report, NuScale describes ENTRA1 Energy as still negotiating a power-purchase agreement with the Tennessee Valley Authority; the deal is unsigned, though NuScale says it could become the largest nuclear deployment program in US history if finalized.

NuScale's cash reserves prove the company can wait for a deal. They do not prove the deal is close - and until the ENTRA1-TVA agreement carries a signature, it belongs on the pipeline side of any capacity plan, not the contracted side.

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