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 […]
Russia is still occupying Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya, and the UN is trying to apply pressure to get it back into Ukrainian control.
Kairos has notched another milestone on the way to deploying its first Hermes molten salt reactor by completing testing on its first engineering test unit.
There’s a fight brewing in Pennsylvania over the future of an AWS project that would hook a new data center directly up to the Susquehanna nuclear power plant. The story so far: In March, AWS made waves when it announced it had purchased a $650M data center campus from Talen Energy that had a direct […]
The US nuclear fleet is seeking a new lease on life. Constellation Energy, the nation’s largest nuclear operator, has filed two plant renewal applications with the NRC since the start of 2024, with more than half its fleet expected to follow suit over the next decade.
France announced last week that the European Commission approved its bid to grant €300M ($321.6M) in aid to Electricité de France (EDF) Nuward subsidiary as it develops SMR technology.
A Swedish SMR developer just got funding to take the next step in development. Blykalla announced this week that it secured 80M SEK ($7.3M) in new funding from investors.
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.
