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General Fusion to Break Ground for a Pilot Plant in the UK in Three Years UKAEA Posts List of 15 Candidate Sites for Fusion Reactors IAEA’s Grossi Calls For International Cooperation On Pilot Plant Criteria TerraPower Targets 2023 for Natrium … Continue reading →

Latest Efforts to Bring SMRs to Alberta’s Tar Sands Hits Investor Headwinds South Korea Seeks Global Role in Launch of Nuclear Powered Cargo Ships Russia Starts Building a Lead-cooled Fast Reactor China Approves Construction of Its First SMR China Remains … Continue reading →

On June 2, 2021, TerraPower, Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon and PacifiCorp announced efforts to build and operate a Natrium reactor demonstration project at a former coal plant in Wyoming. The companies are evaluating several potential locations in the state. A … Continue reading →

NuScale Gets New Equity Investment of $20M from Japanese Firm UK Nuclear Firm Announces HTGR Collaboration With Japan Moltex SMR Clears First Phase of CNSC VDR Regulatory Review Fluor Announces $20 Million Investment in NuScale Power from Japanese Firm Fluor … Continue reading →

Updated 05/31/21 – See Addendum below.  A 600 MWe fast reactor, the CFR600, is expected to be complete by 2023. The CFR-600 is a sodium-cooled pool-type fast-neutron nuclear reactor under construction in Xiapu County, Fujian province, China, on Changbiao Island. … Continue reading →

Global  First Small Modular Reactor Project Achieves Licensing Milestone Rolls-Royce Consortium Increases Plant’s Power,  Plans To Build Up To 10 By 2035 Idaho Lab Slated to be Pilot Site for Use of Nuclear Energy to Produce Hydrogen Doosan and KNHP … Continue reading →

NuScale Teams with Canadian Firm to Deploy its SMRs via Floating Platforms Danish Firm Plans Floating SMR for Asian Customers South Korea Firms to Manufacture Floating Nuclear Power Plants South Korea / KHNP To Invest $350 Million In SMR Design … Continue reading →

TVA to Collaborate with Kairos Power on Development of a 140 MWe Advanced SMR Russia Approvs’ $2.4 Billion Project To Use Five Floating Reactors For Remote Minerals Deposit UK ‘Remains Committed’ To Wylfa Newydd Nuclear Project NuScale Engages Guggenheim Securities … Continue reading →

Kathryn Huff, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy Dr. Kathryn D. Huff was most recently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she led the Advanced … Continue reading →

U.S. State Dept. Commits $5.3M to Promote SMRs Nuclear Energy Developments in 3 Seas Countries – State by State US State Department Offers Support for SMRs and 3 Seas but Not in the Same Breath Rosatom’s Fennovoima Project Revises Construction … Continue reading →