17+ hour, 2+ min ago   (653+ words) Oklo filed an emergency complaint with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission last Friday, alleging that PJM Interconnection unjustifiably removed one of its generation projects from the grid operator’s Cycle 01 interconnection queue. The filing asks FERC to direct PJM to reinstate…...

5+ day, 17+ hour ago   (825+ words) On September 1, 2026, U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright issued an emergency order requiring the Orlando Utilities Commission to keep Unit 1 of the Stanton Energy Center — a coal-fired plant in Orlando, Florida — running through November 30, 2026. The unit had been slated to enter an…...

1+ week, 15+ hour ago   (667+ words) On August 24, 2026, NANO Nuclear Energy and Tillman Digital Gateway announced a non-binding Strategic Commercial Framework to deploy NANO Nuclear’s KRONOS MMR™ reactors across Tillman’s planned AI industrial zones in the United States. The two companies are targeting 2 GW or more…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (592+ words) A precision laser system built by University of South Florida engineers has cleared a critical milestone: the Tennessee Valley Authority has successfully tested the technology for use in nuclear power plant ice condenser inspections. The system is designed to assist…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (405+ words) When the DOE launched its Reactor Pilot Program, Aalo Atomics was already working toward criticality—just on a much slower clock. The company had originally targeted 2027. Then Executive Order 14301 landed, calling for at least three reactors to hit criticality by…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (541+ words) The order took effect August 23. That narrow gap between signing and implementation says something about how urgent DOE considered the situation. Wright framed the move as a commitment to keeping power available when demand peaks: “regardless of whether the wind…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (567+ words) Engineering innovation is often judged by whether something can be built. In complex industries such as energy, that is only the beginning. The harder question is whether an innovation can move from technical possibility to safe execution, customer adoption, and…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (668+ words) Arctic cold locked down the northeastern U.S. for weeks this winter — heating systems running flat out, electricity prices climbing, grid operators watching the margins shrink. It was exactly the kind of stress test that skeptics have long used to argue that…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (295+ words) Deployable Energy has made a name for itself as a company that mass manufactures microreactors that are designed for real-world operation, with the simple aim of making nuclear energy a product not a project. The company’s systems are engineered for…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (794+ words) Drive cabinets that control At 2:49 in the morning the control room lost both pumps at once. A boiling water reactor will run on a single recirculation pump. It will not run on none, and the whole design assumes that losing…...