America’s reactors and the next generation of them: SMRs, licence renewals, fuel supply and the money behind the revival.
A February morning on the Loire, well before the day shift arrives. A transformer on the outer electrical ring of a French nuclear station begins to…
The United States possesses a tremendous number of companies that are willing to dedicate millions of dollars toward the execution of groundbreaking projects that will advance…
A hillside in central Virginia, two ponds held apart by an earthen dam maybe thirty feet across. Blueberry rows run down toward the water on one…
West Virginia wasn’t among the five states the Department of Energy selected as Nuclear Lifecycle Innovation Campuses finalists in July. Then Gov. Patrick Morrissey started making…
On Saturday, the International Atomic Energy Agency announced it had brokered a temporary local ceasefire around Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant — opening a window for…
Between May and August 2025, the ITER Organization declared a “summer of substantial progress” on its international fusion project, pointing to a string of milestones. Six…
Cornell is sending more than 30 faculty and staff delegates to Climate Week NYC, September 20–27, with over 25 events lined up alongside the United Nations…
The Fusion Industry Association dropped a white paper this week, and it’s aimed at a pretty specific audience: the Agreement States that’ll soon be responsible for…
After six years of decontamination work, the Department of Energy (DOE) has begun tearing down Isotope Row — a cluster of 5 facilities at Oak Ridge…
NANO Nuclear Energy (NASDAQ: NNE) and Enveniam signed a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding on September 4, 2026, pairing a microreactor and nuclear fuel developer with a…
Inside a tokamak, fusion plasma superheated to over 100 million degrees Celsius (approximately 180 million degrees Fahrenheit) —far hotter than the core of the sun—can lose…
The U.S. Department of Energy has finalized a loan of up to $1.9 billion to NextEra Energy to fund the restart of the Duane Arnold Energy…
A long flat stretch of coast on the Sea of Japan, a low snow sky, a plant spread across more than a square mile of it.…
As companies are adopting modern-day energy generation strategies, it is hard to predict where the energy industry is headed. The integration of technology into the landscape…
Oklo filed an emergency complaint with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission last Friday, alleging that PJM Interconnection unjustifiably removed one of its generation projects from the…
In August 2025, France, the Netherlands, and Egypt each logged concrete milestones on separate nuclear power projects. EDF received environmental authorization to begin site preparation for…
A plant room under fluorescent light, concrete floor, a pump the size of a small car sitting on a pad. It has not run in weeks.…
On August 26–27, the International Atomic Energy Agency gathered energy ministers, industry leaders, and government officials in Washington, D.C., to formally launch ATLAS—the Atomic Technologies Licensed…
A gravel yard in South Carolina, chain link, low berms, and a painted steel post holding a warning sign. Stuck under the flange of that post…
The American Nuclear Society and the Nuclear Energy Institute came together in Dallas last week for the second annual Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo—and with it,…
As technology and scientific expertise continue to advance, the nuclear energy sector is becoming more sophisticated. Energy companies have the freedom to pursue groundbreaking energy projects…
The United States deserves a huge amount of credit for the commitment that it has shown to diversifying the energy portfolio of every state and ensuring…
Canada and British Columbia broke ground Thursday, September 3, 2026, on Phase 1 of the North Coast Transmission Line — a 103-mile, 500-kilovolt segment running from…
Westinghouse, Nordion, and PSEG Nuclear signed agreements in January 2026 to produce cobalt-60 at Units 1 and 2 of PSEG’s Salem nuclear power plant in New…
Ever since the United States became the leading nuclear energy-producing country in the world, it has maintained its position by executing groundbreaking projects that enhance its…
A machinery room in a nuclear plant, a pump the size of a small car, a scheduled test on an ordinary Wednesday. The pump is supposed…
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has formally docketed a license application from Raven-Flint Nuclear Corp. for a uranium conversion pilot plant. It’s a significant regulatory milestone for…
On the same day, two U.S. House committees moved on nuclear energy from separate directions. The House Committee on Energy and Commerce advanced six bipartisan nuclear…
The American Nuclear Society recently hosted a Supplier Showcase webinar titled “Advancing DVR for MUR: Lessons from First-of-a-Kind Projects,” featuring Greg Kanuckel, director of thermal performance…
NANO Nuclear Energy (NASDAQ: NNE) and Enveniam signed a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding on September 4, 2026, to explore collaboration across U.S. nuclear fuel cycle infrastructure…
A Madison-based fusion startup and one of Wisconsin’s largest utilities are teaming up to explore building a commercial fusion power plant in the state. Realta Fusion…
Tennessee just made history in the fusion energy space — and the recipient of that history is Type One Energy, for its Bull Run site. The…
The seawater comes in through a channel cut into the coast, and everything in it arrives with the water. Weed, plastic, small fish, sand. A bank…
The nuclear energy landscape continues to become more sophisticated due to the freedom that companies have to experiment with the use of technology and scientific expertise.…
On September 2, 2026, Tennessee made nuclear energy history. The Department of Environment and Conservation handed Type One Energy the first commercial fusion machine operating license…
Oak Ridge National Laboratory scientists and A.J. Tuck Company have developed a hybrid manufacturing approach that combines 3D printing and electroforming to produce HIP cans —…
Five companies announced on September 3 that they’ve signed an exclusive agreement to develop a 1.2 GW nuclear project in Sweden — four BWRX-300 small modular…
U.S. uranium concentrate production surged in 2025 to approximately 2.1 million pounds of U3O8—more than three times the 657,000 pounds produced the year before, according to…
Palisades nuclear power plant took a concrete step toward restart Sunday morning, when plant staff began loading fuel into the reactor vessel at the Covert, Mich.,…
Holtec announced in September 2026 that it’s moving forward with component fabrication for HI-TEST, a dedicated reactor testing facility under development at Idaho National Laboratory. The…
The room is full of instruments and almost nobody speaks. On one panel a needle climbs and settles, and a recorder draws a line that keeps…
On August 24, 2026, NANO Nuclear Energy and Tillman Digital Gateway announced a non-binding Strategic Commercial Framework to deploy NANO Nuclear’s KRONOS MMR™ reactors across Tillman’s…
There is a lot of hydrogen at a nuclear station, and none of it is nuclear. It cools the generator, because a gas one fourteenth the…
The corridor is stripped down to clean orange sand for as far as anyone can see. In the middle of it there is a dark oval…
An old nuclear test site in Nevada accidentally became a wildlife refuge. The United States has considerable amounts of vast federal land – some remain active,…
At dawn on the first Saturday of August, a turbine in Hainan began feeding electricity to the island’s grid. The machine behind it is a 1,200…
Mountain lions have made an old federal nuclear test site their new refuge. Across the United States, several federal restricted zones have played varying roles over…
Red clay, a hundred miles from the nearest ocean, in the spring of 1983. A crew is cutting the foundation for a reactor in Burke County,…
U.S. uranium concentrate production surged to 2.1 million pounds in 2025—more than triple the volume recorded in 2024 and the highest annual output in eight years,…
Data centers are betting billions on small nuclear reactors, but experts warn the technology may not arrive in time Data centers are facing a genuine energy…
