America’s reactors and the next generation of them: SMRs, licence renewals, fuel supply and the money behind the revival.
Twice a year, a crane lowers a rack of pencil thin metal rods into the heart of a running nuclear reactor on the shore of Lake…
At the bottom of a water filled steel vessel in Covert, Michigan, a single bundle of nuclear fuel rods leans against its neighbors instead of standing…
As the nuclear energy landscape continues to advance, companies are finding new ways they can rely on to maximize energy generation and ensure that it is…
At two in the afternoon on a stifling Friday, a plant worker noticed smoke drifting over an employee parking lot and called it in. Within minutes,…
While the United States aims to diversify the energy portfolio of every state and ensure that there is consistent energy generation everywhere, the nation still has…
The clean energy transition has been a massive success for the United States mainly because of the government’s willingness to work with private companies and ensure…
On a bend of the Columbia River in eastern Washington, a row of squat concrete buildings sits empty under the desert sun. No one has worked…
For more than 70 years, fusion researchers have followed the same basic sequence: compress the plasma first, then heat it to the extreme temperatures needed to…
On October 8, 2026, Poland’s state nuclear company PEJ formally commissioned Westinghouse Electric Company to begin procuring long-lead items for the first AP1000 reactor unit at…
A reactor hall on the Padma River just made nuclear history. At a few minutes past three in the afternoon, neutrons inside a core of fresh…
The energy sector is becoming more profitable for companies during the clean energy transition, where governments are more supportive of initiatives that can guarantee the reduction…
NANO Nuclear Energy Inc. announced on October 1, 2026, that it signed a definitive agreement to acquire NRC-licensed nuclear fuel processing assets in Lea County, New…
At one in the afternoon on a Thursday in April, Hatch Unit 1 was running flat out. Every system sat at full power. Then something in…
The United States continues to set new standards for what a successful nuclear energy project is, as the nation is using its access to wealth and…
Drive along the Lake Erie shoreline in North Perry, Ohio, and two concrete towers rise together over the trees, identical down to the rivet lines. One…
NANO Nuclear Energy (NASDAQ: NNE) announced on October 6 in New York that it’s bringing Jennifer Charlton, Ph.D., on board as Vice President of Fuel Technology.…
The United States is able to execute nuclear energy projects at a faster pace than most countries, considering the amount of focus the nation has dedicated…
Palm fronds bend over a coastal headland where a concrete dome rises against the haze. Below it, warm seawater pulls steadily through intake pipes built for…
Nuclear energy has been at the heart of the United States’ clean energy transition, with the nation possessing a variety of companies that are competing to…
The United States has shown a huge commitment to diversifying the energy portfolio of every state during the ongoing clean energy transition so that the general…
The clock read 2:09 a.m. when every incoming power line to a New Jersey nuclear station went dead at once. The reactor was running at full…
The nuclear energy sector continues to elevate mainly because of technology and scientific expertise influencing the decisions that developers make and the manner in which they…
The paperwork for closing it was already written. The decommissioning plan had been filed, the timeline set, the workers braced for a slowdown that would stretch…
On September 30, 2026, Holtec International’s Corporate Engineering unit submitted a Preliminary Safety Analysis Report to the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission. That filing completed the second…
The reactor building has stood on Maharashtra’s coastline for more than half a century. Its concrete walls have been seasoned by monsoon after monsoon rolling in…
The United States nuclear energy landscape continues to rapidly evolve, with a variety of companies competing to spearhead it and determine future energy generation strategies. The…
Westinghouse Electric Company and the University of South Carolina signed a memorandum of understanding on September 29, 2026, to build a multidisciplinary nuclear workforce development program…
The Pacific ocean is visible from the control room windows at Hamaoka, a nuclear station planted on a narrow strip of Shizuoka coastline directly above one…
The United States and South Korea announced a non-binding framework on September 30, 2026, under which Korea would commit up to $120 billion to help finance…
The vessel weighs just over 20 metric tons empty and sits in a research hall tucked into wooded hills south of Bologna. Fill it with what…
Holtec International’s Corporate Engineering unit submitted the Preliminary Safety Analysis Report (PSAR) to the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission on September 30, 2026, completing the second phase…
The alarm sounded in a Niigata control room barely hours after engineers had coaxed a cold reactor back to life. Operations were suspended. The machine went…
The United States and South Korea announced a non-binding framework on September 30, 2026, under which Korea would invest $120 billion to help finance the construction…
Just after 6:30 on July 3, alarms flooded the control room at a nuclear plant on the western shore of Lake Erie. Every control rod dropped…
On September 30, 2026, Holtec International’s Corporate Engineering unit submitted its Preliminary Safety Analysis Report (PSAR) to the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission — completing the second…
NANO Nuclear Energy, IP3 Corporation, and Cybernetic Intelligence have signed a Letter of Intent to jointly pursue nuclear-powered AI, national security, and computing infrastructure projects across…
On September 29, 2026, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission issued its first-ever construction permit for a BWRX-300 small modular reactor — authorizing the Tennessee Valley Authority…
London-based independent oil and gas company Viaro Energy has signed a memorandum of understanding with US-based Terrestrial Energy to evaluate deploying Integral Molten Salt Reactor technology…
London-based independent oil and gas company Viaro Energy has signed a memorandum of understanding with US-based Terrestrial Energy to explore deploying Integral Molten Salt Reactor technology…
The United States’ DOE has played an integral role in the initiatives that have materialized in 2026, and it is expected to play an even bigger…
The generator has been sitting in a storage building at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, for nearly four decades. It was built in the 1980s, never switched on,…
The reactor vessel had been sitting empty for four years. Every fuel bundle had been pulled out and stored when the Lake Michigan plant was headed…
At 6:27 on a July evening, a single electrical bus at a Michigan lakeside plant locked out without warning. What followed was a cascade that no…
Eight stories of steel, pipe and vessel rise inside a facility in the Virginia hills, running on ordinary electricity, not uranium. Then the money ran out.…
The nuclear sector has benefited greatly from the integration of technology into it, which has opened the door for companies to experiment and execute the most…
Inside a University of Maryland lab, a fusion reactor cobbled together from salvaged hospital MRI scanners and repurposed glass beer bottles sits quietly at the center…
The United States continues to diversify its clean energy landscape with the understanding that this will increase its availability of clean energy for many decades to…
On September 23, 2026, the Westinghouse-Bechtel consortium and Polish state company Polskie Elektrownie Jądrowe (PEJ) announced they’d agreed on the main commercial and legal terms of…
Eleven months ago, the ground outside Lockhart, Texas held nothing but caliche dust and scrub grass. No building, no foundation, no fuel assemblies. Engineers broke ground,…
The chiller alarm came in quietly, the way the dangerous ones often do. No explosion, no reactor trip, no emergency horn. Just a small relay inside…
