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 […]
Ghana took the next step toward its nuclear energy goals Thursday, striking an agreement with a US nuclear tech project developer to build the country’s first nuclear power plant—and an SMR at that. The details: Regnum Technology Group and Nuclear Power Ghana signed an agreement during the US-Africa Nuclear Energy Summit to deploy one NuScale […]
There’s a wealth of new data on global nuclear power generation and development. This week, two important annual reports on the nuclear sector from IAEA and the World Nuclear Association hit the shelves—so to speak—and revealed in new detail how the globe’s atomic power production is going. All in all, nuclear power generation is up, […]
With the amount of goods traveling every day on massive container ships across the oceans, it stands to reason that those ships could use a nuclear boost—and developers of Gen IV reactors want to make it happen. This week, UK-based nuclear startup Core Power announced that it entered into an agreement with Lloyd’s Register, a […]
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 […]
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 […]
