The DoD is making another bet on Radiant. Yesterday, the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU), the US Air Force, and Radiant announced that the microreactor company had agreed to deliver a working microreactor to a US military base by 2028. It’s the latest in a series of DoD agreements intended to make microreactors part of the […]
Over the weekend, the US surreptitiously sent a fleet of B-2 stealth bombers armed with bunker-buster bombs and a submarine carrying Tomahawk missiles to target three nuclear infrastructure facilities in Iran. For years, Iran has insisted upon its right to enrich uranium, saying that it aims to develop its domestic nuclear energy program. While it’s […]
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.
