This morning, just after 7 AM, after an exhausting 24-hour-plus back-and-forth between moderate and far-right Republicans, the House of Reps passed a reconciliation bill by a one-vote majority. The bill boosts military spending by $150B and makes early cuts to tax credit programs for clean energy, mainly renewables. Overall, nuclear energy maintained support. The military […]
The UK’s nuclear deterrent looks different from other world powers. It’s a singular approach—rather than building the capability to deploy nuclear weapons by air or land, the UK transports its deterrent via submarine. Rolls-Royce is the only company that supplies the nuclear power systems for the UK’s submarine fleet, and on Friday, that program got […]
This morning, Last Energy, a US company developing a scaled-down, manufacturable, shippable nuclear reactor, announced that it’s partnering with the NATO Energy Security Centre of Excellence to research how micro-nuclear tech could fit the alliance’s needs.
The final hot reactor at the Zaporizhzhya nuclear plant in Ukraine is in cold shutdown after the site was targeted by a drone on Tuesday—an escalation of the conflict that could put the plant in jeopardy.
