A recent shake-up in Japan’s nuclear sector spurred a watchdog agency to decide against restarting a reactor, citing concerns over seismic risks. A Nuclear Regulation Authority panel said determining the safety of a reactor at the Tsuruga nuclear power plant is difficult because it’s located over a fault. It’s the first rejection of a reactor […]
Korea’s fusion development is about to get a major government windfall as the nation races toward commercial opportunities. Last week, South Korea’s National Fusion Energy Committee, an office within the Science Ministry, announced that it would start a 1.2T won ($866M) program to bolster domestic commercial fusion development. The funding, separate from the vast amounts […]
Kairos Power has a second safety-approved reactor design on the books. The company announced this week that its Hermes 2 reactor—the follow-on to the Hermes demo reactor—has passed a key safety review by the NRC, notching a key milestone on the path to a construction permit. Build, baby, build: It’s been about a year since […]
Rolls-Royce has its tech on land, at sea, and in the air, so there’s only one place left to go—space. The company announced this morning that it won a £4.8M ($6.2M) award from the UK Space Agency under the country’s National Space Innovation Programme (NSIP). The award will help Rolls-Royce push forward on developing its […]
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.
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.
The Department of Energy released its 2024 Fusion Energy Strategy, which outlines its three pillars for advancing domestic commercial fusion energy alongside the private sector.
Fusion is the word on the DOE’s lips this week. The agency is taking concrete steps toward its commitment to the commercial fusion sector, finally awarding a set of previously announced grants and announcing a brand-new program to support tech development in the sector.
The nuclear industry can breathe a little easier knowing that trafficking of nuclear and radioactive material remained low in 2023, according to the annual fact sheet published Monday by the Incident and Trafficking Database (ITDB), a branch of the UN nuclear energy watchdog agency.
The Canadian provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan have individually explored nuclear power generation. Now, they plan to pool their resources in the name of clean energy production and decarbonization.
