America’s reactors and the next generation of them: SMRs, licence renewals, fuel supply and the money behind the revival.
GE Vernova Hitachi Nuclear Energy and Canadian valve manufacturer Velan signed a collaboration agreement in Paris on June 17, 2026, to explore supplying critical reactor valves…
X-energy subsidiary TRISO-X has received an $11 million economic development grant from Tennessee’s Nuclear Energy Supply Chain Investment Fund to support the continued construction of its…
Trillion Energy International has finalized the design and tender for a 25-mile 2D seismic acquisition program on the M47c,d oil block in southeastern Türkiye. The Canadian…
Realta Fusion announced on July 6 that it demonstrated direct energy conversion at the Wisconsin HTS Axisymmetric Mirror (WHAM) device on the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus—pulling…
The United States’ dominance in the nuclear sector means that it has greater freedom to take risks in the hopes of coming up with even more…
The UK government and EDF have agreed terms to extend the operational life of Sizewell B nuclear power station by 20 years, keeping the Suffolk plant…
Private companies often receive the majority of the credit when a project has been executed successfully, but the materialization of an initiative is multifaceted, with several…
Federal nuclear regulators just moved closer to approving the first small modular reactor construction in the United States. In June 2026, NRC staff published a safety…
The United States’ dominance in the clean energy sector is greatly significant and sizable, to the point that domestic companies can afford to take more risks…
Louisville Gas and Electric Company and Kentucky Utilities announced on April 30, 2026, that they’re teaming up with X-energy—a NASDAQ-listed advanced nuclear reactor developer—to study whether…
Canadian nuclear engineering company AtkinsRéalis filed a notice of intent with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission last week, kicking off the licensing process for its Enhanced…
In June 2025, five US states moved forward on separate nuclear energy initiatives within the same month — a level of simultaneous state-level activity that reflects…
Holtec International and EDF Energy have jointly submitted a proposal to the UK government to deploy Holtec’s SMR-300 small modular reactors at Cottam, Nottinghamshire. The two…
Federal nuclear regulators just moved closer to approving the first small modular reactor construction in the U.S. In June, NRC staff published a safety evaluation report…
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission dropped two proposed rules on July 1, 2026, that would reshape some of the most fundamental pieces of nuclear regulation in…
Four companies have met the July 4, 2026, deadline that President Trump set for advanced nuclear development. Antares Nuclear, Valar Atomics, Deployable Energy, and Aalo Atomics…
A nuclear power plant helped understand how nearby fish react to warmer sea levels. The need for concentrated, zero-carbon electricity is rising globally as climate target…
SGE, a European small modular reactor development platform, has submitted an application under the UK’s Advanced Nuclear Framework to build fourteen GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy BWRX-300…
The United States continues to dominate the nuclear energy landscape with no country coming even close to threatening its reign at the top. The nation’s dominance…
On June 23, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission published a 253-page proposed rulemaking to modernize its security regulations — one of the most expansive updates the…
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission announced several regulatory actions in mid-June, spanning fee policy, facility licensing, and plant life extension. On June 16, the agency finalized…
The International Atomic Energy Agency released a new publicly accessible online tool on June 25, 2026, offering a first-of-its-kind window into the global state of spent…
On June 24, three federal ministers announced that Canada is initiating the formal process to designate three major infrastructure projects as priorities of national interest under…
Canada’s federal government unveiled its Nuclear Energy Strategy on Monday, June 22, 2026, at an event in Newmarket, Ontario, where Energy Minister Tim Hodgson and Ontario…
Arizona’s three largest electric utilities are taking a coordinated step toward expanding the state’s nuclear capacity. APS, SRP, and TEP have jointly launched a preliminary siting…
The United States has an unmatched dominance in the nuclear energy sector, so much so that it has the ability to create blueprints for other countries…
Molten salt reactor developer Natura Resources has signed a formal HALEU offtake agreement with New York-based startup Quadrant Nuclear Industries, securing a supply of high-assay low-enriched…
The U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Energy spent three hours on June 9 examining six proposals to reform how the United States permits…
The United States has, for a long time, been primarily focused on advancing its nuclear energy landscape and because of that, there is an abundance of…
On June 18, 2026, Valar Atomics’ Ward 250 reactor completed a zero-power fueled criticality demonstration at the Utah San Rafael Energy Lab in Emery County—marking the…
On June 11–12, New York State took its most concrete step yet toward a major nuclear expansion: regulators simultaneously launched the Nuclear Reliability Backbone initiative and…
Thea Energy has announced a collaboration with Nvidia, Synopsys, Argonne National Laboratory, and Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory to build a digital twin of Helios, its stellarator…
China’s nuclear power capacity has grown 87 percent over the past decade, rising from 31.4 gigawatts in 2016 to 58.7 gigawatts as of May 2026, according…
Nuclear energy has long been synonymous with power plants feeding the electrical grid. But at the American Nuclear Society’s Annual Conference on June 1, a panel…
Scientists at Idaho National Laboratory have published findings identifying an unusual quantum behavior in plutonium hexaboride, a compound known as PuB6. The material, they report, is…
General Atomics and the Department of Energy have launched the development of design concepts for a facility that would do something fusion research has never done…
The Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management and its cleanup contractor, United Cleanup Oak Ridge, have cleared their first-year target for processing legacy…
Molten salt reactor developer Natura Resources announced on June 15, 2026, that it has entered into a formal agreement to establish a framework for a long-term…
On June 9, 2026, Tennessee became the first U.S. state to put its own regulatory framework for nuclear fusion machines into effect. The rules — an…
Kansas State University brought back its standalone bachelor’s degree in nuclear engineering in fall 2024 — nearly 30 years after the program was absorbed into mechanical…
On June 9, Tennessee became the first U.S. state to put its own regulatory framework for nuclear fusion machines into effect. The Tennessee Department of Environment…
The U.S. Department of Energy has approved Xcimer Energy’s preconceptual technical design for Athena, the Denver-based company’s planned laser fusion power plant. Announced in June 2026,…
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) issued an emergency order on June 11, 2026, authorizing Duke Energy to push its generating units to maximum output across…
Officials from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management and their Japanese counterparts gathered in Santa Fe, N.M., for the 13th U.S.-Japan Technical Meeting…
The United States lost unobligated, domestic-technology enrichment capability for national security and defense purposes in 2013, when the last gaseous diffusion plant closed. Now, more than…
Researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology have developed a metal alloy that does what materials science has long struggled to achieve: it stays ductile at…
Ten of the EU’s 27 member states have jointly written to the European Commission calling for nuclear power to be classified as sustainable energy under a…
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory have accomplished something the fusion field has long pursued: running a single machine learning system…
The U.S. Department of Energy has selected five nuclear companies to enter advanced negotiations for access to surplus American plutonium. Oklo, Flibe Energy, Exodys Energy, Shine…
An alternative approach to geothermal energy can unlock limitless, clean power globally. Uninterrupted, carbon-free baseload power is needed to meet the ever-rising energy demand. Currently, renewable…
