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DOE to Make MOX Fuel at SRS The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Environmental Management (EM) announced the decision to restart HB-Line operations at the Savannah River Site (SRS) in South Carolina. Restarting HB-Line provides the capability to … Continue reading → ...read more

DOE to Make MOX Fuel at SRS The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Environmental Management (EM) announced the decision to restart HB-Line operations at the Savannah River Site (SRS) in South Carolina. Restarting HB-Line provides the capability to … Continue reading → ...read more

NRC Issues First Commercial Reactor Construction Approval in 10 Years For TerraPower in Wyoming The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has authorized the staff to issue TerraPower a construction permit for the company’s Kemmerer Power Station Unit 1 commercial nuclear power plant … Continue reading ...read more

A number of questions have been raised in recent months about the tactics and the capabilities of Valar Atomics, a California-based startup. The firm is one of ten competing in a Department of Energy program to show one or more … Continue reading → ...read more

Why Isn’t China a Market Leader in Export of Nuclear Reactors? In terms of building civilian nuclear reactors, China is a global leader at home but its efforts to export two PWR type reactors designs abroad has come up short. … Continue reading → ...read more

INL Partners with NVIDIA for Nuclear AI Applications The Idaho National Laboratory (INL) and NVIDIA have partnered to advance nuclear energy deployment through artificial intelligence. The purpose of the collaboration is to accelerate deployment of advanced nuclear reactor technologies and … Continue ...read more

California Proposed Legislation Would Crack Open State’s Anti-Nuclear Moratorium Rep. Lisa Calderon Introduces Legislation to Modernize California’s Nuclear Moratorium and Accelerate Climate Goals Assembly member Lisa Calderon (D-56th District) has introduced a pivotal piece of legislation. AB 2646, ...read more

Final Investment Decision Approved for Six NuScale SMRs in Romania (WNN) The shareholders of Romanian nuclear operator Nuclearelectrica have approved the Final Investment Decision for the small modular reactor project in Doicesti, Romania. According to a Reuters report  Romanian Prime … Continue ...read more

DOE-EM Restarts Uranium Recovery at SRS The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management (EM) announced that it is restarting uranium recovery operations at the Savannah River Site (SRS) H Canyon facility in South Carolina. The action is a … Continue reading → ...read more

U.S. Tech Park in Israel May Have a Nuclear Power Plant Israel signed an agreement with the U.S. on 01/16/26  to build an industrial park to produce advanced computer chips at a location in the Negev desert that would use a small modular nuclear reactor (SMR) to power the factory and nearby data ...read more

DOE Seeks Homes for the Elements of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle This week DOE issued a Request for Information (RFI) inviting states to express interest in hosting Nuclear Lifecycle Innovation Campuses. It is one of the most ambitious requests for … Continue reading → ...read more

The Trump administration has overhauled a set of nuclear safety directives and shared them with the companies it is charged with regulating, without making the new rules available to the public, according to documents obtained and reported exclusively by NPR … Continue reading → ...read more

Germany’s Nuclear Shutdown is Called “a Mistake” by Chancellor Merz (NucNet contributed to this report) Chancellor Friedrich Merz last week call Germany’s nuclear power phase-out a “huge strategic mistake,” stating it has led to insufficient energy capacity, inflated costs, and … ...read more

Gov Hochul Adds 4GW to New York Nuclear Plan  (NucNet contributed to this report) New York State Governor Kathy Hochul has unveiled an ambitious new nuclear power initiative that would add 4 GW of new nuclear energy to existing capacity … Continue reading → ...read more

Holtec Submits License Application to NRC for the Palisades Twin SMR-300s Holtec International announced it submitted its first major licensing application to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) for the Palisades SMR-300 Units, Pioneer 1 and 2. This major licensing … Continue reading ...read more

TerraPower in Mega Deal with Meta for Eight 345 MW Natrium Advanced Nuclear Plants TerraPower, a nuclear innovation company, and Meta, which owns and operated multiple social media platforms, announced an agreement to develop up to eight Natrium reactor one … Continue reading → ...read more

India’s SHANTI Bill Boosts Plans for New Nuclear  Reactors The Indian Parliament’s passage of the “Sustainable Harnessing and Advancement of Nuclear Energy in India” (SHANTI) bill is a hugely consequential overhaul of India’s nuclear power framework. It opens up the … Continue ...read more

Duke Energy Submits Early Site Permit at Coal Plant Site Duke Energy Service Area: Map Duke Energy Duke Energy (NYSE: DUK) announced its submission of an early site permit (ESP) application to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) for a … Continue reading → ...read more

The Fusion Energy Report polished its crystal ball this week and offered a list of ten possible, and perhaps plausible, developments for the fusion energy industry. Like all such prognostications, your mileage may vary in terms of how they turn … Continue reading → ...read more

Neutron Bytes was curious about what people asked Google about nuclear energy in 2025 and what Google artificial Intelligence (AI) platform GEMINI could come up with about the most significant events/trends for nuclear energy in 2025 and possible developments in … Continue reading → ...read more

Neutron Bytes – Annual Report 2025 Neutron Bytes is a free online news source about the global commercial nuclear energy industry which in 2026 will begin its 19th year of publication. Evidence of its global reach is that it is … Continue reading → ...read more

Radiant’s Spectacular Day; Raises Over $300 Million Radiant Nuclear, a developer of portable, mass-produced nuclear microreactors, announced that it has raised more than $300 million in a new round of funding. This latest capital raise, coming just six months since … Continue reading  ...read more

TAE Fusion Lassos Trump Media Firm in $6 Billion Merger Trump Media & Technology Group Corp. and TAE Technologies, Inc. announced the signing of a definitive merger agreement to combine in an all-stock transaction valued at more than $6 billion. … Continue reading → ...read more

In a world in which nuclear energy is experiencing a resurgence of interest and action, the determined efforts of groups opposed to the relicensing of the twin 1,100 MW PWRs at the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant flies in the face … Continue reading → ...read more

Diablo Canyon Agrees to  Coastal Commission Land Use Plan Environmental Groups and others opposed to the reopening of the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant thought they’d latched on to a sure thing when the California Coastal Commission told Pacific Gas & … Continue reading → ...read more