Nuclear

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission announced several regulatory actions in mid-June, spanning fee policy, facility licensing, and plant life extension....

The International Atomic Energy Agency released a new publicly accessible online tool on June 25, 2026, offering a first-of-its-kind window...

On June 24, three federal ministers announced that Canada is initiating the formal process to designate three major infrastructure projects...

Canada's federal government unveiled its Nuclear Energy Strategy on Monday, June 22, 2026, at an event in Newmarket, Ontario, where...

Arizona's three largest electric utilities are taking a coordinated step toward expanding the state's nuclear capacity. APS, SRP, and TEP...

The United States has an unmatched dominance in the nuclear energy sector, so much so that it has the ability...

Molten salt reactor developer Natura Resources has signed a formal HALEU offtake agreement with New York-based startup Quadrant Nuclear Industries,...

The U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee's Subcommittee on Energy spent three hours on June 9 examining six proposals to...

The United States has, for a long time, been primarily focused on advancing its nuclear energy landscape and because of...

On June 18, 2026, Valar Atomics' Ward 250 reactor completed a zero-power fueled criticality demonstration at the Utah San Rafael...

On June 11–12, New York State took its most concrete step yet toward a major nuclear expansion: regulators simultaneously launched...

Thea Energy has announced a collaboration with Nvidia, Synopsys, Argonne National Laboratory, and Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory to build a...

China's nuclear power capacity has grown 87 percent over the past decade, rising from 31.4 gigawatts in 2016 to 58.7...

Nuclear energy has long been synonymous with power plants feeding the electrical grid. But at the American Nuclear Society's Annual...

Scientists at Idaho National Laboratory have published findings identifying an unusual quantum behavior in plutonium hexaboride, a compound known as...

General Atomics and the Department of Energy have launched the development of design concepts for a facility that would do...

The Department of Energy's Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management and its cleanup contractor, United Cleanup Oak Ridge, have cleared...

Molten salt reactor developer Natura Resources announced on June 15, 2026, that it has entered into a formal agreement to...

On June 9, 2026, Tennessee became the first U.S. state to put its own regulatory framework for nuclear fusion machines...

Kansas State University brought back its standalone bachelor's degree in nuclear engineering in fall 2024 — nearly 30 years after...

On June 9, Tennessee became the first U.S. state to put its own regulatory framework for nuclear fusion machines into...

The U.S. Department of Energy has approved Xcimer Energy's preconceptual technical design for Athena, the Denver-based company's planned laser fusion...

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) issued an emergency order on June 11, 2026, authorizing Duke Energy to push its...

Officials from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Environmental Management and their Japanese counterparts gathered in Santa Fe, N.M.,...

The United States lost unobligated, domestic-technology enrichment capability for national security and defense purposes in 2013, when the last gaseous...

Researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology have developed a metal alloy that does what materials science has long struggled...

Ten of the EU's 27 member states have jointly written to the European Commission calling for nuclear power to be...

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory have accomplished something the fusion field has long pursued:...

The U.S. Department of Energy has selected five nuclear companies to enter advanced negotiations for access to surplus American plutonium....

An alternative approach to geothermal energy can unlock limitless, clean power globally. Uninterrupted, carbon-free baseload power is needed to meet...

The International Atomic Energy Agency has scheduled the launch of a new maritime nuclear initiative for its ministerial conference in...

Sweden's nuclear ambitions took two concrete steps forward this week. Studsvik, the Swedish engineering firm, filed its second nuclear application...

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory have cleared a significant hurdle in the pursuit of...

The American Nuclear Society's Annual Conference opened this week in Denver, Colorado, under the theme "Net Out and Power Up"...

In June 2026, nuclear project management firm MATRIX published guidance on what it calls the "execution gap" — the persistent...

Kazakhstan announced last week that it has officially partnered with Russia to develop a new nuclear power plant — formalizing...

Greece's mainland grid now exports surplus solar electricity to neighboring countries — a milestone few would have predicted a decade...

On December 13, 2021, workers at Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station in Plymouth, Massachusetts sealed the last canister of spent nuclear...

On May 20, 2022, the Palisades Power Plant in Covert, Michigan, went offline — not quietly, but after a site...

For more than half a century, every commercial nuclear project in the United States that sought federal construction permits went...

Somewhere in the oil patch, gas that could power a city burns off into the night sky. Across industrial corridors,...

Ontario's electricity system is being pulled in several directions at once. Demand is climbing. Industry is returning. And the province...

While major energy transitions are rarely driven by a single event—especially in nuclear, where progress is often slowed by regulatory...

A nuclear power project was supposed to change the future of energy, but it uncovered history instead. Global energy strategies...

England was ready to secure its energy future with nuclear power. But then an archaeological mystery was uncovered. The UK...

Ontario just gave formal backing to a project that could rewrite the record books for nuclear power — not somewhere...

Energy projects often go unnoticed until something goes wrong. Community change tends to occur slowly, obscured by permitting processes, physical...

Nuclear projects do not fail; they falter when there is no clear process in place to produce the necessary infrastructure....

Meeting growing electricity demand will increasingly be about using the resources you have. As the U.S. energy system continues to...

The pace of Advanced Nuclear Technology development depends as much on the performance of supporting industrial systems—requiring precision, reliability, and...