Energy threads
Korea–US nuclear framework: $120B for eight large US reactors
NRC overhaul watch: breakneck pace meets first pushback
SMR industrial base: fuel cycle + supply chain stacking
The companies building small and advanced reactors are locking in fuel supply faster than the reactors are licensed. Antares now has a BWXT fabrication deal for an initial tonne of TRISO fuel plus…
Germany's nuclear waste repository search narrows to under 5% of territory
Germany's Federal Company for Radioactive Waste Disposal has reduced the area under consideration for the country's planned high-level radioactive waste repository from 25% of German territory to…
TÜPRAŞ: USTDA-backed study weighs SMRs for Turkish refining heat and steam
Westinghouse: FEED study for a possible AP1000 at Bohunice, Slovakia
Westinghouse will carry out a front-end engineering and design study for a possible AP1000 reactor at the Bohunice nuclear plant in Slovakia. It is a study-stage step only, with no unit count, cost,…
Big Tech goes to uprates: Amazon × Constellation, Google × Georgia Power
Rosatom reactor exports
IAEA ministerial nuclear conference lands in Korea: SMR acceleration pledge
The IAEA Ministerial Conference on Nuclear Energy is being held in South Korea for the first time. Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Science and ICT Bae Kyung-hoon delivered the keynote, calling…
Nuclear-AI campuses: Fermi America's Matador, the Texas cohort
Fermi America has completed a draft environmental impact statement for Project Matador, four AP1000 reactors planned at its Advanced Energy and Intelligence Campus in Texas. In Germany,…
Restart/finish wave: Palisades wobble, Crane cleared
Clinch River: the country's first BWRX-300 construction permit
DoD nuclear demos: Army leases, Aberdeen IMSR, Antares space reactor
Etango: Bannerman–CNNC FID sends Namibia's uranium project into full-scale construction
A positive final investment decision by the Bannerman Energy–CNNC Overseas joint venture has moved Namibia's Etango uranium project into full-scale construction. The project is aiming for…
Los Alamos' electrochemical system for semiautonomous glovebox decontamination
Los Alamos is using an electrochemical system to decontaminate retired plutonium gloveboxes semiautonomously, so they can leave the costly transuranic waste class. Watch for deployment status,…
Posiva granted the world's first licence to operate a used-fuel repository at Olkiluoto
Posiva has received a licence to operate the encapsulation and final disposal facility for used nuclear fuel at Olkiluoto in Finland. The report describes it as the first used-fuel repository in the…
BWRX-300 abroad: Poland and the UK
The BWRX-300's export story outside North America: Polish capital and siting toward a Pątnów plant, and a UK joint venture to operate a fleet - the deployment model financed and organized abroad.
Canada's space-isotope push: a new centre and C$11.1M (US$7.9M) across 16 space projects
GAO audits DOE cleanup land transfers (fuel-cycle, solar, and AI leases at legacy sites)
The Nuclear Company's 6.6-GW Kentucky campus: outline plans only
Barakah drone strike: IAEA mission finds the response effective
Canada's nuclear-waste map: a hosting city opposed, NSDF denied
Genesis Mission: a second round of 12 Phase II and six Phase I awards
TerraPower hosts officials at the Natrium site in Kemmerer
Indiana weighs a 6-GW CANDU exploration (AtkinsRéalis + Hoosier Energy)
Korea files concerns over the EU's Industrial Accelerator Act
AEP × X-energy: the 960-MW SMR agreement and the Indiana site
IAEA's isotope methods for tracing nitrate pollution, 14 labs
Merkley–Markey resolution to block the US–Saudi nuclear deal
Oklo's Groves-2: DOE follow-on, medical isotopes first
AP1000 design certification renewed on Vogtle lessons
India's nuclear fleet: Kakrapar 5–6 studies, fuel-complex output
Mochovce 4: grid connection and first electricity
Molten Chloride Reactor Experiment: DOE cost-share, first criticality 2027
China's ACP100 SMR: hot testing begins
Chernobyl hot particles: long-lived radioactivity, 40 years on
Project Infinity: fusion at Bull Run (Type One Energy + TVA + UK)
Project Beehive: Valar Atomics' 456-reactor campus in Utah
States reconsider: California's advanced-nuclear assessment (AB 2647) + fusion framework (SB 925)
NLIC waste campuses: six finalist states incl. Tennessee
Quiet threads
Civil microreactors: the leasing and test-bed lane
Microreactors moving into civilian service: campus deployments, DOE test-bed selections, and the commercial leasing model, kept apart from defense demos.