As the world welcomed 2025 with fireworks and ball drops, the China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) celebrated a milestone of its own: a new reactor. On Jan. 1, CNNC commenced operations at Unit 1 of the Zhangzhou Nuclear Power Project in southeastern China. Unit 1, the first of six Hualong One reactors planned for the […]
We started covering the fission industry with Ignition’s launch back in February. At that point, we had no idea (OK, maybe an inkling) that this year would hold so many pivotal moments in fission development for the US market. Here’s our recap of the moments and trends that mattered most in the US fission sector. […]
The relationship between AI and nuclear goes both ways. We’ve seen the deals signed to power the vast energy needs of AI with nuclear power—and now it’s time for AI to give a little something back. That’s the goal of a collaboration announced this week between Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) and Atomic Canyon, […]
Six months after its founding, SMR startup Deep Atomic has revealed a reactor design concept that’s sized especially for data center customers. The company said last week that it would focus its energy (no pun intended) on potential data center customers by building tailor-made reactors. “The data center energy demand peak and the peak interest […]
Talen Energy is making deals to free up valuable capacity at the Susquehanna Steam Electric Station as it plans for a dramatic shift toward powering big data. The latest update: Purchasing a crypto mining operation using 200 MW of the plant’s capacity. On Thursday, Talen announced that it had purchased the remaining 25% of a […]
The US DoD project to build a portable microreactor for military operations in the field is officially underway. On Tuesday, the Pentagon announced that it broke ground at a site near the Idaho National Lab to support the build of Project Pele, which aims to produce energy from a Gen IV nuclear reactor for the […]
It’s been five years since the last reactor at the Three Mile Island nuclear power generating station was decommissioned and 45 years since the accident that tarnished the plant’s name. But now that we’re entering a new era of power demand, reopening rumors have been swirling around shuttered plants—Three Mile Island included. On Friday, Constellation […]
At long last, the NRC issued its first permit for constructing a liquid-fueled advanced reactor. Abilene Christian University in Texas received the historic permit to build a Natura Resources molten salt reactor, dubbed MSR-1, at a $23M test facility on campus.
In its mission to deploy Sweden’s first SMR—and start the nation’s first new reactor construction in more than 40 years—Blykalla has raised the second half of its Series A round. The 80M SEK ($7.7M) in new funding doubles the total size of the Series A to 160m SEK ($15.5M). The investors in the round extension […]
Serial entrepreneur Liz Muller has a new vision for the nuclear energy sector: putting SMRs deep underground. The idea might sound crazy, but Muller has spent enough time thinking about the benefits of boreholes—narrowly drilled holes in rock that can be used to place items, including machinery, one mile or more below the Earth’s surface—that […]
