Oak Ridge at heart of US enrichment supply chain developments
Centrus’s plans for a major expansion of its facility at Oak Ridge to a “high-rate manufacturing plant” were announced by Tennessee Governor Bill Lee, Deputy Governor Stuart McWhorter and Centrus…
Drone test flights prove possibilities for use in fusion
Due to the Joint European Torus’s (JET’s) complex, crowded, and highly sensitive environments, the use of drones had been highly restricted, despite the value of remote inspection. However, in late 2025,…
UK-US partnership for HALEU transport packages
Pegasus, , is aimed at being “the world-leading transport package” for high-assay low-enriched uranium fuel (HALEU), Nuclear Transport Solutions said. In December 2024, Nuclear Transport Solutions (NTS) was awarded funding by the UK…
Plans for two new reactors confirmed by South Korea
The Basic Power Supply and Demand Plan contains domestic power generation facility plans for the next 15 years. It is updated by the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy every…
Argentina planning to reactivate heavy water plant
The National Atomic Energy Commission (CNEA) said that the work would involve modernisation, technological upgrades and refurbishment – and its maintenance role was designed to “preserve the plant’s critical assets…
Kairos secures HALEU for Hermes’ first fuel load
Kairos is building the Hermes Low-Power Demonstration Reactor – known as Hermes 1 – in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. It was one of the first round of companies conditionally selected by…
Reactor internals delivered for Xudabao unit 1
The main functions of the reactor internals are to provide support for fuel assemblies and other components in the reactor pressure vessel, and to guide the control rod drive mechanism.…
Bureau Veritas to aid Dutch deployment of Rolls-Royce SMR
The agreement was signed during the NExSMR conference, which was held from 14-16 January in The Hague. “ULC-Energy is delighted with the collaboration with Bureau Veritas,” said ULC-Energy CEO Dirk…
Civil construction of replacement Trino waste store completed
Work on the 41-metre-long, 19-metre-wide, and 8.5-metre-high facility, which began in November 2024, involved demolishing the old storage facility and rebuilding it on the same site, with a volume equal…
Denmark begins study on potential use of nuclear energy
In 1985, the Danish parliament passed a resolution that nuclear power plants would not be built in the country. However, in a parliamentary vote in May last year, two-thirds of…
