America’s reactors and the next generation of them: SMRs, licence renewals, fuel supply and the money behind the revival.
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…
As the nuclear sector continues to evolve, there is an abundance of companies that are aiming to position themselves so that they can benefit when the…
A concrete cylinder on the Somerset coast, open to the sky, with a pit in the middle of its floor. Hanging above it is a forged…
A concrete bay at a national laboratory complex in eastern Idaho, early on a June morning. Inside a rig roughly the size of a large household…
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…
