UN Calls for Russia to Leave Zaporizhzhya
Russia is still occupying Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya, and the UN is trying to apply pressure to get it back into Ukrainian control.
Rachael Zisk
EDF Exits the UK’s SMR Competition
This week, Électricité de France (EDF), the French state power company, withdrew its Nuward SMR concept from a key UK program just before the competition’s latest deadline. The Nuward SMR concept is experiencing some growing pains, and the company doesn’t have a design ready for primetime.
ITER Adds a Decade to its Deployment Deadline
The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), an international collaboration on a fusion test reactor, has delayed its first operations to 2034…nearly half a century after the project was first envisioned in 1986 and nine years after the most recent target start date.
Kairos Wraps ETU 1.0 Testing
Kairos has notched another milestone on the way to deploying its first Hermes molten salt reactor by completing testing on its first engineering test unit.
AWS’ Nuclear-Powered Data Center Gets Pushback
There’s a fight brewing in Pennsylvania over the future of an AWS project that would hook a new data center directly up to the Susquehanna nuclear power plant. The story so far: In March, AWS made waves when it announced it had purchased a $650M data center campus from Talen Energy that had a direct […]
NANO Nuclear’s Cooling Tech Acquisition Sends Stock Surging
NANO Nuclear Energy ($NNE) is having a good week. The newest nuclear energy IPO on the market is trading up nearly 46% since Monday morning and reached an intra-day high of $36.14 per share on Tuesday.
Fission and Fusion Get Through Congress
Congress was busy last week talking nuclear energy. A bill that spearheads regulatory changes for both fusion and fission energy has now passed both chambers of Congress and awaits only the president’s signature. The legislation passed under the banner of the Fire Grants and Safety Act, though the bulk of the bill’s text was dedicated […]
N-ergy Raises $1.5M to Speed Up Advanced Materials Testing
N-ergy recently raised a $1.5M pre-seed round to build out a data-powered autonomous advanced materials factory that can dramatically speed up the design, manufacture, and qualification of new materials—from five years to three months, start to finish.
The DOE Backs Advanced Light Water Reactors
The first companies to deploy a new technology—like an advanced reactor, for example—take on a lot of risk in the process. This week at the ANS summer meeting, US Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm announced a new DOE funding initiative to ease that first-mover burden.
Up Goes Uranium Production
It’s been a big week for new uranium production prospects around the globe, with three big announcements coming from the US, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan. We’ve got you covered with the roundup.