Rosatom reactor exports
Rosatom's civil-nuclear export push now spans five countries: an agreement for floating plants to power an eastern Indonesian island, a plan to start building large reactors in Uzbekistan in 2027,…
Energy threads
Korea–US nuclear framework: $120B for eight large US reactors
South Korea plans to invest $120 billion in US nuclear power for eight large reactors at federal sites, six AP1000 and two APR1400 reactors, as part of a $200 billion three-project package; it…
NRC overhaul watch: breakneck pace meets first pushback
The NRC is accelerating nuclear licensing on several fronts, and oversight is starting to push back. Democrats formally asked the agency for information in late September, a GAO report raised…
Antares–BWXT TRISO fuel deal
Antares has a multi-year agreement with BWX Technologies to fabricate advanced nuclear fuel, starting with an initial tonne of TRISO fuel for its microreactors, with volumes possibly rising as…
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
TÜPRAŞ, Turkey's largest crude oil refiner, has signed an agreement with the US Trade and Development Agency to fund technical assistance assessing whether small modular reactors could supply…
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,…
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…
Clinch River: the country's first BWRX-300 construction permit
NRC has approved TVA's construction permit for a GE Vernova Hitachi BWRX-300 at Clinch River, the first US construction permit for the design. The same reactor is being pursued in Europe through a…
DoD nuclear demos: Army leases, Aberdeen IMSR, Antares space reactor
The US military is advancing several nuclear demos: the Army conditionally awarded long-term installation-power leases to three companies, with Ameresco and Terrestrial Energy to deliver an IMSR at…
GLE Paducah laser enrichment plant
Cameco has become the exclusive buyer and seller of all output from GLE's planned Paducah Laser Enrichment Facility, and the US nuclear regulator now recommends that a construction and operation…
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…
Westinghouse LEU+ fuel plant
Westinghouse is investing $1 billion in a new LEU+ nuclear fuel factory at its Columbia Fuel Fabrication Facility in Hopkins, South Carolina, the first fleet-scale US fuel plant in more than 50…
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
Canada has launched the Canadian Centre for Space Isotopes and is putting C$11.1 million (about US$7.9 million) into 16 space projects, two of them focused on radioisotope technologies. The two…
GAO audits DOE cleanup land transfers (fuel-cycle, solar, and AI leases at legacy sites)
The Government Accountability Office released two reports on October 16, 2026 examining the Department of Energy's nuclear-waste cleanup efforts, covering future land-use planning and the regulatory…
The Nuclear Company's 6.6-GW Kentucky campus: outline plans only
The Nuclear Company has proposed a Kentucky nuclear campus called Prosperity One, along the Ohio River in eastern Kentucky, with up to six Westinghouse AP1000 reactors and about 6.6 GW if all are…
Barakah drone strike: IAEA mission finds the response effective
An IAEA mission to the UAE found that effective action was taken after a drone strike caused a fire in a generator outside Barakah's inner perimeter. Details of the mission's findings, unit 3's…
Canada's nuclear-waste map: a hosting city opposed, NSDF denied
Dryden voted to formally ask Canada's Major Projects Office to deny project of national interest status to a proposed deep geological repository near the city. The Federal Court of Appeal denied an…
Genesis Mission: a second round of 12 Phase II and six Phase I awards
The DOE announced a second round of Genesis Mission awards: 12 Phase II and six Phase I projects, including fusion-energy and high-radiation-environment work. Phase II awards scale up projects that…
TerraPower hosts officials at the Natrium site in Kemmerer
TerraPower hosted senior government officials at its Natrium demonstration site in Kemmerer, Wyoming, the project's first appearance in this story; the officials were not named and no project…
Indiana weighs a 6-GW CANDU exploration (AtkinsRéalis + Hoosier Energy)
Indiana is exploring a potential project of up to eight CANDU nuclear units with a combined 6 GW capacity, with AtkinsRéalis, Hoosier Energy and the state. It sits alongside a separate 960-MW Xe-100…
Korea files concerns over the EU's Industrial Accelerator Act
South Korea has raised concerns that the EU's proposed Industrial Accelerator Act could affect non-member countries taking part in the EU nuclear market. The Dukovany new nuclear project remains on…
AEP × X-energy: the 960-MW SMR agreement and the Indiana site
American Electric Power and X-energy signed a joint development agreement to evaluate a 960-MW project made up of twelve Xe-100 small modular reactors at the former Breed coal plant site in Sullivan…
IAEA's isotope methods for tracing nitrate pollution, 14 labs
The IAEA has published findings from a four-year research project that developed and tested isotope-based methods for tracing nitrate pollution in rivers and groundwater. Fourteen countries took…
Merkley–Markey resolution to block the US–Saudi nuclear deal
Senators Jeff Merkley and Ed Markey have introduced a resolution of disapproval aimed at blocking the proposed US–Saudi civil nuclear deal, making Congress a hurdle for the agreement as negotiated.…
Oklo's Groves-2: DOE follow-on, medical isotopes first
Oklo has announced plans for Groves-2, the next stage of its Groves project under a follow-on DOE program, initially focused on medical isotope production. It named the planned Groves-2 Forge isotope…
Quantum Leap–Necsa HALEU venture
Quantum Leap Energy and Necsa have signed a binding heads of agreement to establish a joint venture for HALEU production in South Africa. The venture will develop, finance, build and operate a test…
AP1000 design certification renewed on Vogtle lessons
The NRC approved Westinghouse's request to renew and update the AP1000 standard design certification, incorporating lessons from Vogtle-3 and -4. The approval makes Vogtle-4 the standard AP1000…
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
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
China's ACP100 SMR: hot testing begins
Chernobyl hot particles: long-lived radioactivity, 40 years on
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.
Closed threads
Fusion race: $10B bill, ENN's H-B groundbreak, UK sprint
Fusion is drawing public money and private capital on several continents: a bipartisan US bill proposes $10 billion for commercialization, Germany launched a milestone-based programme, and Commerce…
SMR industrial base: fuel cycle + supply chain stacking
Small and advanced reactor developers are securing fuel and parts faster than reactors are licensed. Antares has a BWXT deal for an initial tonne of TRISO fuel and initial DOE safety approval for its…
Big Tech goes to uprates: Amazon × Constellation, Google × Georgia Power
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,…