US companies welcome Executive Orders
Friday, 30 May 2025 (Image: The White House) Four executive orders signed by President Donald Trump on 23 May aim to support the entire US nuclear supply chain and the…
EDF ‘just seeking to ensure Czech project meets EU rules’
Friday, 30 May 2025 There are currently four units the Dukovany nuclear power plant (Image: CEZ) The background The Czech Republic is planning new nuclear capacity and in July last…
Uprated NuScale SMR design gets US approval
Friday, 30 May 2025 (Image: NRC) The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) accepted NuScale’s design certification application for a plant comprising up to twelve 50 MWe power modules in March 2017.…
Podcast: President Trump’s nuclear announcements
Thursday, 29 May 2025 The three nuclear-focused executive orders were entitled Reinvigorating the Nuclear Industrial Base, Reforming Nuclear Reactor Testing at the Department of Energy and Ordering the Reform of the…
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…
