Energy digest — Nov 2, 2026
Top line: The NRC has finished its safety review of the Xe-100 proposed at Texas's Long Mott station, with a construction permit announcement expected soon; Poland's PEJ has applied to start early works at the country's first nuclear plant site; and Antares, Last Energy and Radiant hit DOE authorization milestones as early Reactor Pilot Program companies.
Brief
- The NRC says it has finished its safety review of the Xe-100 reactor proposed for the Long Mott Generating Station in Texas and that a construction permit announcement will come soon (World Nuclear News) — the final permitting stage for the design's first US deployment; the permit decision itself is what follows.
- First safety-related concrete has been poured for the reactor building of unit 5 at the Haiyang nuclear power plant in China's Shandong province, the fifth of six large pressurised water reactors planned for the site (World Nuclear News).
- Polskie Elektrownie Jądrowe has applied to the head of the Pomeranian Voivodeship for a permit to start early works at the Lubiatowo-Kopalino site in Choczewo municipality, planned home of Poland's first nuclear power plant (World Nuclear News).
- Three of the original DOE Reactor Pilot Program companies hit authorization milestones in October: Last Energy and Radiant earned documented safety analyses for their first reactors, and Antares earned its nuclear safety design agreement for its second reactor (ANS Nuclear Newswire).
- Russia and Uganda signed a roadmap on cooperation in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, part of work towards a nuclear power plant (World Nuclear News) — the latest addition to Rosatom's string of agreements across Africa and Central Asia.
- The University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Medicine and Public Health has broken ground on a $62 million project to add two cyclotrons to its medical research infrastructure, lifting radioisotope production capacity by two- to eightfold depending on the isotope; the National Institutes of Health, the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation and private donations are funding it, with completion expected by May 2028 (ANS Nuclear Newswire).
- Centrus Energy has marked the completion and shipment of the first centrifuge built at its Oak Ridge, Tennessee Technology and Manufacturing Center for the uranium enrichment plant expansion at Piketon, Ohio — a press event on October 29 brought out company and government officials, with president and CEO Amir Vexler calling the shipment "something much larger" than a simple transfer between facilities (ANS Nuclear Newswire).
- General Fusion announced it will host a third-quarter 2026 results conference call; the notice points investors to the company's investor-relations contacts (MarketScreener). Routine scheduling notice — the results themselves, and any LM26 or funding detail in them, are what to watch.