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…

Wendelstein 7-X sets new fusion performance records

Wednesday, 4 June 2025 Inside the vacuum vessel of Wendelstein 7-X (Image: Jan Hosan / IPP) In the latest experimental campaign, which ended on 22 May, researchers from Europe and…

Meta, Constellation sign 20-year clean power deal

Tuesday, 3 June 2025 The Clinton Clean Energy Center (Image: Constellation) The power purchase agreement will see Meta purchase output from the single-unit boiling water reactor unit to support its…

First concrete poured for tritium removal facility

Tuesday, 3 June 2025 (Image: Nuclearelectrica) It will be the first such facility in Europe, and just the third in the world, with Romania hoping that it will help the…

New Mexico uranium projects selected for permitting fast-track

Tuesday, 3 June 2025 La Jara Mesa (Image:X/Laramide Resources) The designation is part of the federal infrastructure permitting initiative established under Title 41 of the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act…

Turbine hall demolished at Sizewell A

Tuesday, 3 June 2025 (Image: NRS) The football-pitch-sized turbine hall has now been razed to the ground using a series of “innovative and forward-thinking techniques” which meant the completed work…

Extension granted for Smolensk unit 2

Tuesday, 3 June 2025 (Image: Smolensk NPP) The RBMK-1000 light water graphite reactor entered commercial operation in 1985 and currently has permission to operate until 2030. The first Smolensk unit…

NRC says no environmental impact from Palisades restart

Monday, 2 June 2025 Work underway in the interior of the Palisades plant (Image: Holtec) The single-unit pressurised water reactor on the shores of Lake Michigan permanently ceased operations on…

IAEA completes siting review for El Salvador

Monday, 2 June 2025 The mission team visiting one of the candidate sites (Image: CEL) Designed to assist IAEA Member States at different stages in the development of a nuclear…

Ansaldo to cooperate with Uzbek atomic agency

Monday, 2 June 2025 (Image: Ansaldo Energia) The MoU was signed in the Uzbek city of Samarkand on 29 May by Ansaldo Energia Senior Vice President of Public Affairs and…