The United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) Group has launched its 2026–2030 organisational strategy for its national fusion laboratory, based on the UK Government’s Fusion Strategy launched in ...
US start-up Deployable Energy’s demonstration reactor, Unity, has achieved a zero-power fuelled criticality demonstration at Idaho National Laboratory (INL). It is the third Department of Energy (DOE) ...
The fusion industry has now succeeded in attracting more than $7.1bn of investment, with more than $900m of that coming in the last year alone. This is the conclusion of the latest annual report from ...
Rendering of the Groves Isotopes Test Reactor facility in Lockhart, Texas (Credit: Hillside Architecture) Atomic Alchemy, a subsidiary of US-based Oklo, has received Department of Energy (DOE) ...
Above: Rolls-Royce SMR has asked for a justification decision on its 300 MW PWR design UK plans for Small Modular Reactor (SMR) development are progressing with the first reactor design submitted for ...
The first ever VVER-TOI reactor at unit 1 of Russia’s Kursk-II NPP has begun pilot industrial operation. Power will gradually be increased from 408 MWe to the nominal level of 1,250 MWe. The VVER-TOI ...
Repairs to Argentina’s Atucha II NPP required special tools and a life-size training facility In October 2022, Argentina’s nuclear utility Nucleoeléctrica Argentina S.A. (NA-SA) contacted CONUAR SA to ...
The 4th meeting of France’s Nuclear Policy Council (CPN – Conseil de politique nucléaire), chaired by President Emmanuel Macron, decided to delay the commissioning of EPR2 reactors to 2038 – a ...
Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) are newer generation reactors designed to generate electric power typically from 20 MWe up to 300 MWe, whose components and systems can be shop fabricated and then ...
ATLAS will be used for accelerated testing of the coating Nickel-based alloys like Inconel or Hastelloy are used in many nuclear reactors. Their use, however, presents a number of challenges. Yinbin ...
The proposed deployment of X-energy’s Xe-100 plant in the UK could benefit from its US unit planned with Dow Inc. at a manufacturing site in Texas (Source: Centrica) A raft of deals to develop new ...
The CAREM-25 SMR construction site in August 2024 (Source: CNEA) Construction of Argentina’s CAREM-25 small modular reactor (SMR) has once again been stopped, this time by layoffs of construction ...