America’s reactors and the next generation of them: SMRs, licence renewals, fuel supply and the money behind the revival.
Red clay, a hundred miles from the nearest ocean, in the spring of 1983. A crew is cutting the foundation for a reactor in Burke County,…
U.S. uranium concentrate production surged to 2.1 million pounds in 2025—more than triple the volume recorded in 2024 and the highest annual output in eight years,…
Data centers are betting billions on small nuclear reactors, but experts warn the technology may not arrive in time Data centers are facing a genuine energy…
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and nuclear fuel startup Ampera have joined forces to develop a new kind of TRISO fuel—one built around thorium instead of conventional…
An Idaho nuclear site became a refuge for local antelope, which targeted nearby farm fields, but not for long. The United States has vast expanses of…
On a July morning in central Hungary the pumps at a large riverside station began fighting something they were never built to fight. The river had…
The nuclear energy sector is quickly advancing as companies are showing a greater willingness to invest in groundbreaking energy projects. The integration of technology into the…
A boiling water reactor is a pressure cooker that has to stay exactly half full. Water is the coolant and it is also the thing that…
A precision laser system built by University of South Florida engineers has cleared a critical milestone: the Tennessee Valley Authority has successfully tested the technology for…
Inertia Enterprises and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have jointly developed a new manufacturing process for the cryogenically frozen deuterium-tritium fuel layers at the core of inertial…
It is important for the United States to continue executing nuclear energy projects because this means the nation can remain the leading nuclear energy-producing country in…
Westinghouse announced on August 25 that it successfully completed zero-power criticality testing for its eVinci microreactor at the National Criticality Experiments Research Center. The test was…
On the second day of NECX 2026, three advanced reactor companies took the stage to recount something the nuclear industry hadn’t seen in decades: multiple startups…
The opening in the concrete is a rectangle about 64 feet tall. The object going through it is 42 feet of forged steel weighing 551 tons.…
Inside a concrete bay in southern Nevada sits a steel vacuum chamber about the size of a kitchen appliance. No pump runs anywhere in the building.…
NANO Nuclear Energy (NASDAQ: NNE) and Tillman Digital Gateway signed a non-binding Strategic Commercial Framework on August 24, 2026, in New York, naming NANO Nuclear as…
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission published a Federal Register notice on August 12, 2026, formally opening a 60-day public hearing window for Orano Enrichment USA’s application…
A length of stainless bar sat on a bench, half an inch across, cut from a single melt. The paperwork that came with it said the…
At two in the afternoon on a Monday in early February, operators withdrew control rods from a reactor that had not moved in nearly fourteen years.…
The integration of technological innovation into the energy sector has opened up greater possibilities for developers as they pursue energy projects. The United States has for…
Hydraulic fluid was already spreading across the grating before anyone in the control room knew what had happened. Somewhere above it, on a flanged joint the…
Both units at the plant were down. No fission, no steam, nothing on the wires, nothing in either core doing what a core does. A quarter…
Kairos Power just signed a memorandum of understanding in August 2026 with seven regional organizations to launch NuCAMP—the Nuclear Center for Advanced Manufacturing and Precast—in Oak…
On August 21, 2026, U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright signed an emergency order telling PJM Interconnection and Constellation Energy to keep two natural gas and oil…
Two of the country’s leading national laboratories are teaming up to rethink how nuclear pressure vessels get built. On August 19, 2026, Oak Ridge National Laboratory…
There is nothing to look at. A low windowless box on a gravel pad, sagebrush pushing up to the edge of the grading, a bank of…
At the American Nuclear Society’s Global 2026 conference this week, four uranium enrichment companies laid out concrete plans to rebuild a domestic industry that’s largely disappeared…
Standard Nuclear and Radiant Industries have signed a binding multi-year fuel supply agreement to deliver multiple tons of TRISO nuclear fuel through 2031—enough to power Radiant’s…
The United States sizable gap over all other countries in the nuclear energy generation sector means that U.S. based companies have the opportunity to expand globally…
Somewhere on the floor of the North Atlantic, roughly 200,000 barrels of radioactive waste sit in the cold and the dark — a quiet consequence of…
At 9:47 on a Thursday morning the plant was doing what it does. Full power, steam to the turbine hall, the grid taking everything it made.…
There is a pattern beginning to form of U.S. based companies that are leading the charge for the United States as a pioneer in the nuclear…
The execution of energy projects is so complex and expensive that a single company may not always be able to successfully deliver the projects within the…
Drive out of a small Wyoming town and the first thing that appears is a steel frame. Behind it sits a fenced rectangle of graded dirt with survey…
NANO Nuclear Energy (NASDAQ: NNE), a New York-based advanced reactor company, and Quadrant Nuclear Industries (QNI), a Boston-based nuclear fuel developer, announced on August 18, 2026…
At 2:49 in the morning the control room lost both pumps at once. Not one. Both. A boiling water reactor will run on a single recirculation…
The old cooling canal was never meant to raise anything. It was dug to shed heat, pulling Mississippi River water past a nuclear plant’s machinery. But…
The offer went out and nothing came back. Any town in the state could raise its hand, take money to study whether it wanted a reactor,…
For the second consecutive year, on the exact same summer date, a massive bloom of translucent jellyfish clogged the cooling water intake systems at the Gravelines…
The U.S. Department of Energy has told X-energy it will receive up to $1 billion in additional federal funding for its small modular reactor project with…
The United States’ nuclear energy landscape continues to advance following the heavy integration of technological innovation into the sector. The U.S. has long dominated other countries,…
The cylinder hangs level, a few feet above an open concrete shaft. It is 43 feet long, about 15 feet across, and it weighs 367 tons. The…
Two bills introduced in the U.S. Senate earlier this month are targeting opposite ends of the nuclear energy cycle—one aimed at expanding domestic uranium enrichment capacity,…
Fifty-four California elected officials aren’t waiting. On August 4, mayors, city council members, and county commissioners from across the state sent a formal letter to Governor…
Fusion energy spent decades chasing one scientific goal: get more energy out of a reaction than you put in. In 2022, researchers finally did it. The…
Stand at the foot of the shell at Lianjiang and the thing above you does not read as a building. It reads as a horizon that…
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…
