• Sat, Jun 3 2023

    INL’s Marvel Micro Reactor Prepares for Testing

    INL’s Marvel Micro Reactor Prepares for Testing Nuclear Startup Wants to Build a Commercial Version of Marvel China Halts Its Floating Nuclear Power Plan DOE Announces $50 Million for a Milestone-Based Fusion Development Program Key Collaborations Announced for Fusion Projects … Continue ...read more
    • Mon, May 29 2023

    Poland’s Power Progress Gains with Plans for Nuclear Energy

    Poland’s Power Progress with Nuclear Energy Westinghouse And Bechtel To Form Consortium To Design And Build Country’s First Nuclear Station Poland / State Control Over Strategically Important Nuclear Project Essential Advanced Reactors / NRC’s ACRS Recommends Approval Of Kairos Power … Continue ...read more
    • Mon, May 29 2023

    Fact Checking a Nuclear Startup’s Claims

    Fact Checking a Nuclear Startup’s Claims A nuclear energy startup, Nano Nuclear Energy , based in New York, NY, issued a press release in mid-May in which the firm’s CEO is quoted in a trade press report as saying that … Continue reading → ...read more
    • Sat, May 27 2023

    Memorial Day 2023

    This is a segment available on YouTube from the movie Saving Private Ryan (1998). In a a US Army General reads aloud a letter sent to a mother who lost five sons in the Civil War on the Union Side. It sets the stage for the rescue mission in the movie to save Private Ryan … … Continue reading ...read more
    • Sat, May 20 2023

    US Commits $275M to NuScale SMR for Romania; $4B Pledged for Future Funding

    US Commits $275M to NuScale SMR for Romania; $4B Pledged for Future Funding Oklo Announces Sites for Two Nuclear Power Plants in Southern Ohio SMRs Considered For Indonesian Fertilizer Plant UK’s Newcleo Launches €1 Billion Equity Raise For LFR Development … Continue reading → ...read more
    • Tue, May 16 2023

    NuScale Inks MOU for SMRs at Nucor Steel Mills

    NuScale Inks MOU for SMRs at Nucor Steel Mills Terrestrial Energy Awarded U.S. Department of Energy Grant for IMSR Licensing AECL, CNL and Global First Power to Build Micro Reactor at Chalk River site 16 Firms Including Mitsubishi Make $74M … Continue reading → ...read more
    • Sat, May 13 2023

    X-Energy, DOW Select Texas Site for SMR Power Plant

    X-Energy, DOW Select Texas Site for SMR Power Plant Dow (NYSE: DOW), the world’s leading materials science company, and X-Energy Reactor Company, LLC, a developer of advanced nuclear reactors and fuel technology for clean energy generation, announced that Dow has … Continue reading ͛ ...read more
    • Sun, May 7 2023

    Westinghouse to Develop a 300 MW Light Water SMR

    Westinghouse to Develop a 300 MW Light Water SMR NuScale in Talks with the Philippines on SMRs USNC to Offer Advanced HTGR Reactor to Philippines NPCIL Signs Agreement For Six New 700 MW PHWR Nuclear Reactors Dutch Government Allocates Significant … Continue reading → ...read more
    • Sun, Apr 30 2023

    South Korea Expands Its Export Possibilities for SMRs

    South Korea Expands Its Export Possibilities for SMRs with NuScale, TerraPower, X-Energy, and Holtec KHNP to Set Up Enriched Uranium Supply Chain with Centrus and Orano South Korea calls on US to Resolve Legal Dispute On Nuclear Reactor Export To … Continue reading → ...read more
    • Sat, Apr 29 2023

    NAS Report on Challenges Ahead for Advanced Reactors

    U.S. Must Lay the Foundation for New and Advanced Nuclear Reactors New and advanced types of nuclear reactors could play an important role in helping the U.S. meet its long-term climate goals. A range of technical, regulatory, economic, and societal … Continue reading → ...read more
    • Fri, Apr 28 2023

    Twitter Turmoil is a Risk to Nuclear Utilities

    The New York Times reports that the elimination by Twitter of “blue check” marks signaling authenticity of any account on the social media platform has opened the door to multiple accounts impersonating government agencies, entertainment celebrities, and political figures of … Continue ...read more
    • Sun, Apr 23 2023

    Terrestrial Energy Completes CNSC VDR Reviews

    Terrestrial Energy Completes CNSC VDR Process TVA Preparing Draft Construction Permit Application For SMRs Denmark’s Core Power and South Korean Firms Team Up for Floating SMR Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation, Hyundai Engineering, & SK E&C Sign MOU for Hydrogen Production … Continue ...read more
    • Mon, Apr 17 2023

    Germany’s Nuclear Shutdown, Energy Security Unhinged

    Germany’s Nuclear Shutdown, Energy Security Unhinged MIT ~ Shutting Down Nuclear Power Could Increase Air Pollution Clean Core and Canadian Nuclear Laboratories Partner on ANEEL Fuel for PHWRs Japan Adopts National Strategy On Nuclear Fusion As Competition Intensifies GAO ~ … Continue reading ...read more
    • Tue, Apr 11 2023

    Nuclear Now, A New Film by Oliver Stone Opening April 28th

    In the thought-provoking documentary NUCLEAR NOW, iconic director Oliver Stone explores the possibility for the global community to overcome challenges like climate change, ensure our continued survival and reach a brighter future through the power of nuclear energy. Readers of … Continue reading ...read more
    • Sat, Apr 8 2023

    Saudi Arabia’s Uranium Prospecting Comes Up Short

    Saudi Arabi’s Uranium Plan Dim on Prospecting Results Red Book / Global Uranium Production Down 12% Argentina to Freeze Chinese Nuclear Project PacifiCorp Forecasts Need for Two Additional Natrium Reactors X-energy Partners with Kinectrics for Helium Test Facility Savannah River … Continue ...read more
    • Sat, Apr 1 2023

    Indonesia Gets US Grant, and Help from NuScale, for SMRs on Borneo

    Indonesia Gets US Grant, and Help from NuScale, for SMRs on Borneo Thorcon to Support Pre-Licensing Consultation for 500 MW Advanced Reactor with Indonesia Nuclear Safety Ministry Thorium Energy Alliance Inks MOU with El Salvador Thorium’s Long-Term Potential in Nuclear … Continue reading U ...read more
    • Sun, Mar 26 2023

    TVA, OPG & Synthos Green Team Up for BWRX300 SMR

    TVA, OPG & Synthos Green Team Up for BWRX300 SMR BWXT Inks Engineering Contract for BWRX-300 SMR Fast Reactors / China And Russia Sign Fuel Agreement for CFR-600 Ultra Safe Nuclear Hires U-Battery Talent for Its UK Reactor Team Urenco … Continue reading → ...read more
    • Mon, Mar 20 2023

    SMRs See Progress in US, Canada, & Europe

    GEH’s BWRX-300 Completes First Two Phases Of Design Review NRC to Start Technical Review of NuScale 77 MW Design Czech Republic / CEZ, Wants First SMR In Operation In 2032 Sweden / Vattenfall Talking To Reactor Suppliers For SMR Deployment … Continue reading → ...read more
    • Sun, Mar 12 2023

    Energy Harbor Sells Four Reactors to Texas Holding Company

    Energy Harbor Sells Four Reactors to Texas Holding Company France / 10 European Countries Join Macron’s Push To Promote Nuclear Power France’s CEA Spins Off Two Companies For SMR Development NuScale Power Places First Long Lead Production Order with South … Continue reading → ...read more
    • Fri, Mar 10 2023

    Saudi Nuclear News Update for 03/10/23

    As you are probably aware this week the WSJ and NYT published reports that Saudi Arabia, in a reported surprise move, has approached the US for so-called “security guarantees” and for assistance with its civilian nuclear energy program. The Saudi … Continue reading → ...read more
    • Sun, Mar 5 2023

    X-Energy Inks SMR Deal with DOW

    X-Energy Inks SMR Deal with DOW Saving Nuclear Reactors One at a Time; Holtec, Diablo Canyon Urenco to Supply Ultra Safe Nuclear with Enriched Uranium Lightbridge Completes Fuel Casting Project at PNNL Silex Raises $81M to Advance Laser Enrichment of … Continue reading → ...read more
    • Sun, Feb 26 2023

    Westinghouse Launches Joint Regulatory Reviews at CNSC and NRC

    Westinghouse Launches Joint Regulatory Reviews at CNSC and NRC for eVinci Advanced Micro Reactor NRC’s Draft Part 53 Regulation for Advanced Reactors Faces Industry Headwinds Canada Launches New Small Modular Reactor Funding Program Third UAE Reactor Starts Revenue Service UAE’s … Continue ...read more
    • Tue, Feb 21 2023

    IAEA Reports Surveys Scope of Fusion Energy Devices

    Vienna, Austria – IAEA Public Information Office (02/20/2023) There are currently over 130 experimental public and private fusion devices operating, in construction or planned around the world, based on different approaches to producing fusion reactions and having a variety of … Continue reading ...read more
    • Sun, Feb 19 2023

    South Korean Team to Develop SMR-powered Ships

    South Korean Team to Develop SMRs to Power Ships Poland / France’s EDF Signs MOU for SMRs NANO Nuclear Closes $4.14M Funding Round for Micro Reactor NANO Nuclear Energy Inc Creates HALEU Fuel Spinoff Clean Core Thorium Energy Begins VDR … Continue reading → ...read more
    • Sat, Feb 11 2023

    BNF Capital Takes 10.7% Equity Stake in Lightbridge

    BNF Capital Takes 10.7% Equity Stake in Lightbridge Centrus Completes Construction and Initial Testing of HALEU Demonstration Cascade Fermi Energia Selects GE Hitachi’s BWRX-300 SMR for Estonia Rolls-Royce SMR Signs Agreement in Poland for its 470MW PWR Sheffield Forgemasters to Collaborate with ...read more