America’s reactors and the next generation of them: SMRs, licence renewals, fuel supply and the money behind the revival.
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…
The room is deep underground, beneath a university building in Indiana, humming with the low drone of a server farm. Inside, a reactor has been running…
With the energy industry becoming more sophisticated, most companies are looking for the latest energy generation strategies that are set to be at the center of…
The Padma runs wide and brown at Ishwardi, carrying snowmelt from the Himalayas through the flat northwest of Bangladesh toward the sea. On a Monday afternoon…
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission granted Holtec an exemption on August 28, 2026, letting the company kick off early ground construction at the Palisades Energy Center…
There is an increasing number of companies that are relying on energy developers to provide them with clean energy in large quantities as the clean energy…
The United States’ Department of Energy has been highly influential in the projects that have materialized in 2026, as it has made it easier for developers…
Deep inside a Matagorda County control room, a row of indicator lights shifted color and the board lit up all at once. The control rods dropped…
In the latter phase of the year, most of the projects that started off at the beginning of 2026 are now being wrapped up, meaning the…
Princeton University will host a brand-new center focused on fusion research, among other things. The center will be fundamental in maintaining American leadership in critical science…
Row upon row of stainless steel tanks fill a reactor building that last split atoms for weapons before the Berlin Wall came down. The liquid inside…
Inside a concrete test bay at the edge of the high desert, a reactor the size of a shipping container sustained a chain reaction for the…
At 4:31 on a September morning, a control room in rural Illinois went very loud, very fast. Lights across the board, alarms stacking, half the reactor’s…
Europe’s nuclear plants are bending in the heat — but a new study shows energy losses have plummeted 91% since 2003 Every summer now, Europe braces…
With 2026 coming to an end, many countries are starting to evaluate the amount of progress that they have made toward achieving their long-term clean energy…
