Formal initial design review of Infinity Two completed

Thursday, 29 May 2025 (Image: Type One Energy) Type One Energy said the Infinity Two is “based on the world’s only implementable, peer-reviewed physics basis for a fusion power plant…

Darlington SMR contract awarded to Candu Energy

Thursday, 29 May 2025 The Darlington New Nuclear site (Image: OPG) AtkinsRéalis is providing Ontario Power Generation (OPG) with expertise for the engineering of the BWRX-300 small modular reactor (SMR).…

Oklo, KHNP to cooperate on SMR projects

Thursday, 29 May 2025 Oklo CEO Jacob DeWitte (left) and KHNP President Joo-ho Whang (Image: Oklo) Under the agreement, Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power (KHNP) and Oklo plan to collaborate…

Construction of new Korean reactor begins

Wednesday, 28 May 2025 (Image: KHNP) Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power (KHNP) announced “the start of full-scale structural work by pouring the first concrete for the reactor building, a key…

Swiss nuclear fuel contract for Framatome

Wednesday, 28 May 2025 The Leibstadt plant (Image: KKL) The ATRIUM-11 design uses an 11×11 rod array and chromia-enhanced uranium oxide pellets. This allows operators to run plants with more…

Go-ahead for Columbia plant uprate

Wednesday, 28 May 2025 Columbia Generating Station (Image: BPA) The Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) announced on 20 May that it has given Energy Northwest the go-ahead for the Extended Power…

Norwegian firms select partners for uranium, decommissioning

Wednesday, 28 May 2025 (Image: terimakasih0 / Pixabay) Norsk Kjernekraft is a private company that aims to build, own and operate small modular reactor (SMR) power plants in Norway in…

Fast-tracked US uranium project receives federal approval

Wednesday, 28 May 2025 Velvet-Wood, in Utah (Image: DOI) The project is the first to be approved under a new accelerated review process launched as part of a strategic response…

First carbon-14 dispatched from Chinese plant

Tuesday, 27 May 2025 (Image: CNNC) China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) said the milestone “marks the first mass production achievement under He Fu No.1, China’s first isotope production technology brand,…

Nordic nuclear regulators seek to enhance cooperation

Tuesday, 27 May 2025 (Image: Nordic Strategy Group) At their annual meeting in Reykjavik, Iceland, in August 2023, the directors of the Nordic radiation and nuclear safety authorities decided to…