‘Great opportunities ahead’ for fuel cycle
Thursday, 10 April 2025 Gitzel, Butcher and Bilbao y León (Image: World Nuclear Association) Kicking off the annual event in Montreal on 9 April, World Nuclear Association Director General Sama…
DOE selects first recipients of HALEU
Thursday, 10 April 2025 HALEU fuel pellets (Image: INL) HALEU – uranium enriched to contain between 5% and 20% uranium-235 – will be used by many advanced reactors which are…
Deep Yellow defers Tumas decision pending price improvement
Wednesday, 9 April 2025 (Image: Deep Yellow) In January, the Australian company had said it expected to be ready to make a final investment decision – or FID – on…
Aalo unveils microreactors option for data centres
Wednesday, 9 April 2025 (Image: Aalo Atomics) The Austin, Texas-based company says the Aalo Pod is “purpose-built to provide fast, reliable, clean, safe, and scalable on-site power for modern data…
Production starts of Paks 6 reactor vessel
Wednesday, 9 April 2025 (Image: Paks II Ltd) Workers at the AEM-Spetsstal plant in St Petersburg – part of Rosatom’s Machine-Building Division – have begun forging a batch of blanks…
Hot testing of second Zhangzhou unit completed
Wednesday, 9 April 2025 Workers in the control room of Zhangzhou 2 (Image: CNNC) Hot functional tests involve increasing the temperature of the reactor coolant system and carrying out comprehensive…
First Light Fusion, Frazer-Nash team up for fusion development
Wednesday, 9 April 2025 (Image: First Light Fusion) The two companies have signed a non-exclusive letter of understanding for multi-year collaboration to develop cutting-edge engineering technologies that they say will…
UK government provides funding for fusion development
Tuesday, 8 April 2025 (Image: DESNZ) Starmaker One is a limited partnership in which the government is a cornerstone investor. The fund has potential to raise between GBP100 million and…
Bruce unit 5 refurbishment gets IESO go-ahead
Tuesday, 8 April 2025 The turbine hall at Bruce 5 (Image: Bruce Power) Major Component Replacement – or MCR – involves removing and replacing key reactor components including steam generators,…
ČEZ selects Amentum to support SMR programme
Tuesday, 8 April 2025 The Tušimice coal-fired plant site, which could house SMRs (Image: Honza Groh) In September last year, the Czech Republic chose UK firm Rolls-Royce SMR after assessing…
Iran Closes Strait of Hormuz Again and Says its Negotiating Team With U.S. is Heading to Switzerland
