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Oklo, Centrus explore advanced nuclear fuel joint venture
7+ hour, 59+ min ago (249+ words) The joint venture's activities would take place at Centrus's Piketon site in southern Ohio, which is also near Oklo's planned 1.2 GW power campus. According to the announcement from the two companies "the potential joint venture would aim to enable an…...
GBE-N granted licence to generate electricity
3+ day, 11+ hour ago (1079+ words) GBE-N granted licence to generate electricity'World Nuclear News Gaining such a licence, Great British Energy - Nuclear (GBE-N) said, represents "a landmark moment" in its mission to deliver Europe's first small modular reactors (SMRs) "Acquiring a generation licence is one of…...
Rook I uranium project gets construction approval
3+ day, 4+ hour ago (445+ words) NexGen Energy has received the final regulatory approval for the Rook I uranium project in northern Saskatchewan, and will begin construction later this year....
NRC issues construction permit for first Natrium plant
4+ day, 10+ hour ago (330+ words) The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission has approved'a construction permit for TerraPower's Kemmerer unit 1 project - the first such permit for a commercial-scale non-light water reactor in the country for four decades. ' The Bill Gates-chaired company's Natrium 345 MWe sodium-cooled fast reactor has…...
EC needs strategy in efforts to improve global nuclear safety, say auditors
4+ day, 9+ hour ago (556+ words) EC needs strategy in efforts to improve global nuclear safety, say auditors'World Nuclear News...
The mouse-sized robot developed to inspect the Large Hadron Collider
5+ day, 10+ hour ago (314+ words) CERN, the European Council for Nuclear Research, is located near Geneva in Switzerland. Its underground'Large Hadron Collider (LHC) consists of a 27-kilometre ring of superconducting magnets in which'subatomic particles are accelerated to nearly the speed of light under ultra-high-vacuum conditions…...
South Korea to cooperate with the Philippines on nuclear power projects
5+ day, 8+ hour ago (482+ words) Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power, the Export-Import Bank of Korea and the Philippines' largest private electric distribution utility Manila Electric Company have signed a tripartite memorandum of understanding for cooperation in developing nuclear power plants in the Philippines....
India’s Rajasthan unit 7 reaches full power
3+ week, 5+ day ago (320+ words) Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) announced on LinkedIn: "Rajasthan Atomic Power Project - Unit-7 (RAPP-7) successfully achieved rated power operation of 700 MW for the first time on 10 February 2026 at 05.15 hrs. "The milestone stands as a testament to engineering excellence,…...
Data centres and energy proposals sought for Savannah River and other US federal sites
5+ mon, 1+ week ago (227+ words) Requests for Proposals have been issued to build and power AI data centres at the Savannah River Site and the Oak Ridge Reservation. " Ten tracts of land totalling 3,103 acres (1,256 hectares) at the Savannah River Site have been identified for Artificial…...
'Transformative' research reactor mooted for Texas A&M
1+ week, 3+ day ago (354+ words) The Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station has signed an agreement with advanced small modular reactor company ZettaJoule to explore building a very-high temperature modular reactor that could attract USD1 billion in research funding. "; The project would see ZettaJoule build its…...