America’s reactors and the next generation of them: SMRs, licence renewals, fuel supply and the money behind the revival.
The plant closed on a spring afternoon and every fuel assembly came out of the core. The staff scattered. The paperwork moved from operating to taking apart.…
The clean energy transition has increased activity within companies, as they are showing a greater willingness to invest in captivating projects that will provide clean electricity…
Blue Energy and GE Vernova Hitachi Nuclear Energy signed an agreement on August 13, 2026, to push their planned 2.5 GW gas-plus-nuclear power plant in Victoria,…
At 10:10 p.m. on August 6, Slovakia’s Mochovce Unit 4 reactor achieved criticality—the point at which a nuclear chain reaction becomes self-sustaining. Twenty-one minutes later, operator…
On the Jiangshan Peninsula in southern China, a line of pump trucks lines up beside a freshly dug pit. They begin to pour, and they do…
The United States has been able to remain the leading nuclear energy-producing country in the world with the help of companies that are willing to invest…
On a foggy February morning off the central California coast, a PG&E manager piloted a small boat past a concrete structure crouching just below the surface…
A study published in Nature Communications in August 2026 reveals that the Democratic Republic of the Congo has exported thousands of metric tons of uranium—undeclared and…
Centrus Energy Corp. and X-Energy just signed an enrichment services contract. Under the deal, Centrus will supply both low-enriched uranium and high-assay low-enriched uranium to fuel…
South of Miami, well past the last strip mall and the last stoplight, the land flattens into marl and mangrove and finally gives way to open…
The United States’ nuclear energy landscape continues to elevate because companies are committed to maintaining the nation’s position as the leading nuclear energy producer in the…
On the grey shore of Lake Ontario, about 75 miles east of Toronto, a stretch of flat ground has been waiting since the 1970s for something…
On a Thursday morning in April 2026, shovels broke Tennessee ground on a site that once held the largest uranium enrichment complex the world had ever…
Dominion Energy Virginia has asked federal regulators to extend the early site permit for its North Anna nuclear power plant in Louisa County for another 20…
West of Hamburg, where the Elbe widens toward the sea, a 198-ton cable excavator has been doing something most of the demolition industry quietly retired decades…
One winter morning a drone lifted off over the eastern shore of Lake Huron and found something that looked, from the air, like a lake bursting…
It closed on a gray December day in 2014, after forty years of splitting atoms beside the Connecticut River in the southwest corner of Vermont. The…
A derecho hit Palo, Iowa on an August night in 2020 and rearranged the future. Two cooling towers at the Duane Arnold Energy Center collapsed under…
The abundance of nuclear energy-producing companies in the United States means that the nation has a variety of resources that could be relied upon at any…
Oak Ridge National Laboratory and fusion company Type One Energy signed a licensing agreement on August 5 at the Nuclear Opportunities Workshop in Knoxville, Tennessee. The…
On a cold January Sunday in Somerset, England, something very large and very slow was crossing the countryside. It moved at the pace of a cautious…
The United States will host the ministerial launch of the IAEA’s new maritime nuclear initiative—Atomic Technologies Licensed for Applications at Sea, or ATLAS—in Washington, D.C., on…
In the span of a single week, Holtec made two announcements that capture the dual nature of the nuclear industry right now. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission…
The United States has been able to maintain its dominance in nuclear energy production because of the strong relationship and understanding between local companies and the…
ARC Clean Technology has signed a Strategic Partnership Project agreement with Battelle Energy Alliance, the contractor that manages Idaho National Laboratory, setting up a multiyear framework…
Something unusual is rising in a small Wyoming coal town, and at first glance it looks like every industrial project that came before it. There are…
New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill signed the Power NJ Act on July 13, putting the state on a formal path toward building advanced nuclear energy facilities.…
Every December, the Swedish coast north of Uppsala locks under ice. The bays go grey and still. Fish drop to the bottom, and the birds that…
Nine Illinois communities have filed responses to a state notice of intent signaling interest in hosting a new nuclear facility, according to submissions made to the…
The Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics announced on July 27, 2025, that it’s developing 2-megawatt gyrotrons intended to become the primary plasma heating system for…
On a July evening in Gillette, Wyoming, dozens of residents filed into the Gillette College Technical Education Center and took their seats around company display tables.…
Something happens on a construction site when a number is written on a whiteboard and no one speaks. That number was 40 millimeters: the gap, on…
At the end of July 2026, the Danube slid to 31 centimeters in Budapest. That is not a number most people associate with a power crisis.…
Federal regulators met in central Pennsylvania on Tuesday to lay out where things stand on emergency preparedness for the planned restart of the Crane nuclear power…
2026 has been yet another eventful year in the United States’ nuclear energy sector, as companies are showing a commitment to maintaining the nation’s position as…
Somewhere along the southern shore of Lake Erie, a marsh is breathing that should not exist. Ohio was once stitched together by wetlands. Vast and slow…
The United States has managed to maintain its position as the leading nuclear energy-generating country. One of the key reasons behind this achievement is that the…
The U.S. Department of Energy has named five states as finalists to potentially host a new class of federal facilities designed to manage the full nuclear…
The town of Palo, Iowa counts fewer than 1,000 residents. It sits on flat farmland northwest of Cedar Rapids, and for 45 years the cooling tower…
Tucked into the mountains of North Wales, Dinorwig is one of Europe’s largest pumped-storage hydropower plants—and it just got a major upgrade lined up. First Hydro Company…
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has issued a proposed rule to update how radioactive materials are transported — a regulatory framework that hasn’t fully kept pace…
Something is eating into the sagebrush flats of eastern Idaho’s Arco Desert. It is not a mine. It is not a landfill. It is a hole…
The U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration announced Monday its intent to award $31 million to the Intermountain-West Nuclear Energy Corridor Tech Hub — a…
The United States continues to dominate the nuclear energy sector, thus encouraging local companies to take massive risks in the types of projects that they pursue.…
The Bristol Channel fog had not lifted when the last truck pulled away. For five straight days, a convoy of concrete mixers rumbled without pause along…
A vast stretch of Ukrainian forest has been off limits to most humans for nearly four decades. No farmers till the soil there. No loggers clear…
On July 21, TerraPower announced it had been accepted into the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations — becoming the first advanced reactor company ever admitted to…
Standard Nuclear just announced that construction is substantially complete at two new TRISO fuel production facilities—one in Tennessee and one in Idaho—and that the Department of…
The ocean holds more uranium than all known land-based reserves combined — and a startup now has federal backing to go after it. SuperCritical Materials, an…
The Department of Energy announced on July 22 that it’s selected 278 projects under its Genesis Mission initiative, backed by $5 billion in federal commitments. The…
