NuScale Power (SMR) Jumps 12.4% as Investors Scoop up Ahead of Q2 Earnings

We recently published Market on Mute? Not for These 10 Stocks With Surprising Gains. NuScale Power Corporation (NYSE:SMR) is one of Monday's top performers.

NuScale Power jumped by 12.38 percent on Monday to close at $42.12 apiece as investors began repositioning portfolios ahead of its second quarter earnings results.

According to the company, it will announce the results of its second quarter financial and operating performance on August 7, 2025.

The nuclear power technologies sector currently carries an overall optimistic sentiment among investors amid the rosy prospects for their business, supported by the US government’s plans to aggressively expand the energy industry to power the booming AI sector.

In recent news, NuScale Power Corporation (NYSE:SMR) partnered with GSE Solutions for the development of a hydrogen fuel cell generation and storage plant simulation model to support the former’s hydrogen simulator project.

The initiative forms part of the broader research to provide clean water and efficient hydrogen production technologies.

Following the partnership, a single NuScale power module (NPM) coupled with a reverse osmosis desalination system is expected to yield 150 million gallons of clean water daily without generating carbon dioxide.

Twelve NPMs provide desalinated water for a city of 2.3 million residents and electricity for 400,000 homes.

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