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accession: "0001822966-25-000165"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SMR"
cik: "0001822966"
company_name: "NUSCALE POWER Corp"
filed_at: "2025-10-20T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T03:16:35.883037+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
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source: SEC EDGAR
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# NuScale appoints James Canafax as Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary

## Summary
- James Canafax appointed Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary effective October 20, 2025.
- Canafax previously served as General Counsel at Maritime Partners and SVP, General Counsel at BWX Technologies (BWXT).
- He brings nuclear industry experience including NRC regulatory interactions; holds JD from Harvard Law and MIT nuclear reactor course.
- CEO John Hopkins stated Canafax is 'uniquely suited' to support NuScale's commercialization of SMR technology.
- NuScale remains the only SMR technology with NRC design approval, per Canafax.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001822966-25-000165
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SMR
- cik: 0001822966
- company_name: NUSCALE POWER Corp
- filed_at: 2025-10-20T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1822966/000182296625000165/0001822966-25-000165-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1822966/000182296625000165/smr-20251020.htm

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