UK parliament committee calls for speedier Sellafield clean-up
Thursday, 5 June 2025 The Sellafield site (Image: ONR) The Sellafield site – which houses more than 1000 buildings – is the largest nuclear complex in Western Europe. Sellafield’s nuclear…
Allseas aims for rapid SMR deployment
Thursday, 5 June 2025 (Image: Allseas) The company has selected high-temperature gas-cooled reactors (HTGRs), using tri-structural isotropic – or TRISO – particle fuel, with a power output of about 25…
KHNP sets out plans for USD18.6bn Czech nuclear project
Thursday, 5 June 2025 (Image: CEZ) The engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract was signed on Wednesday, just hours after the Czech Supreme Court annulled a lower court’s injunction which…
Approval of Westinghouse test microreactor progresses
Thursday, 5 June 2025 eVinci (Image: Westinghouse) Westinghouse, Radiant, and Ultra Safe Nuclear were competitively selected last year to receive federal funding totalling USD3.9 billion to support them in the…
Lightbridge irradiation experiment passes design review
Thursday, 5 June 2025 Lightbridge says its metallic fuel can significantly enhance reactor safety, economics, and proliferation resistance (Image: Lightbridge) The company is preparing for testing of its Lightbridge Fuel…
Newcleo and JAVYS establish joint venture company
Thursday, 5 June 2025 (Image: JAVYS) The agreement to establish the Centre for Development of Spent Nuclear Fuel Utilisation (CVP) as a joint venture company was signed in Rome on…
Canadian leaders outline plans to become energy ‘superpower’
Wednesday, 4 June 2025 The First Ministers meeting took place in Saskatoon (Image: Premier of Ontario/X) At a meeting held in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan on 2 June, the premiers of Canada’s…
IAEA’s Grossi discusses future nuclear developments in Ukraine
Wednesday, 4 June 2025 (Image: @rafaelmgrossi/X) Grossi, who had one of his meetings during the day moved to an underground shelter because of an air raid siren, said that “the…
Czech-KHNP Dukovany contract signed after court lifts injunction
Wednesday, 4 June 2025 (Image: CEZ) Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala, writing on Facebook, said: “The contract for the completion of Dukovany has just been signed. One of the largest…
Lincolnshire withdraws from UK repository siting process
Wednesday, 4 June 2025 (Image: mablethorpe.online) A Community Partnership was formed in June 2022 in Theddlethorpe, Lincolnshire, in eastern England, to consider whether the UK’s Geological Disposal Facility (GDF) could…
