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August 2026

Texas - A 22-inch Halliburton well is going sideways under a Texas cow pasture, triple the usual oil hole, so a 5,000-pound nuclear-waste canister can go down and come back up — no spent fuel on the pad, just the drill, a hole opener, and a warning about snakes

North Dakota - North Dakota explores nuclear energy future as lawmakers eye legislative reforms

Connecticut - CT part of northeast ‘policy summit’ on expansion of nuclear power in region. Called ‘an important statement’

Massachusetts - Fusion energy finally solved the physics puzzle, but MIT researchers just revealed the far harder problem nobody saw coming

Nation - Don’t Ask States to Become Nuclear Waste Dumps. Make Them Partners in Solving the Problem

Canada - Port Hope residents resist proposed nuclear plant due to town's radioactive past

Canada – Video: Port Hope’s past fuels pushback on nuclear reactor

South Asia – Washington began building a plant to turn nuclear waste into glass in 2002: The first real waste finally started melting in 2025

California - Atomic Canyon Launches AI Virtual Assistant for Nuclear Reactor Operations

California - Inertia Enterprises finds a way to make its fusion fuel fast

Idaho - Portable 1MW Kaleidos microreactor secures critical nuclear fuel deal through 2030s

South Carolina - Savannah River National Laboratory wins R&D 100 Award for nuclear waste management innovation

North Carolina - 3x larger crystal could power high-energy laser systems for inertial fusion energy research

Massachusetts - Apollo Atomics wants to make nuclear power cheaper by shrinking an overlooked part

United Kingdom - Anti-AUKUS march sets off from Port Augusta… and it’s a long one

Western Europe - Uh... There Are 200,000 Barrels Leaking Radioactive Waste at the Bottom of the Atlantic

Central Europe - New IAEA Project to Strengthen Testing of Nuclear Fuels and Materials in Research Reactors

West Africa - Ghana gets nuclear power plant simulator

Yucca Mountain - Casey Carter on Raising Voices Around a Quiet Nuclear Catastrophe in “To Use a Mountain”

California - US: Radiant sends portable nuclear reactor on a 1,000-mile road trip to prove readiness

Idaho - Aurora Advanced Nuclear Reactor by Oklo at INL Advances: First of its Kind in the U.S.

Texas - Hornbeck Offshore and Deployable Energy Partner on Maritime Nuclear Reactors

Texas - Corpus Christi Port Signs Agreement on Nuclear-Powered Shipping Technology

Tennessee - Tennessee Republican balks at nuclear campus, waste storage

Tennessee - How Tennessee is becoming a hub for fusion power

Maryland - Can X-Energy's Fuel Strategy Accelerate SMR Commercialization?

New Jersey - Princeton’s nuclear fusion reactor spinout scales flat superconducting magnets for commercial plants

New Jersey - Connecting the power of the stars to geometry

United Kingdom - JET and future fusion decommissioning

East Asia - Hisashi Ouchi and the Tokaimura Nuclear Accident: What Really Happened

California - California eyes nuclear revival as Long Beach explores reactor for 15,000 homes

California - Bluecore Floating Nuclear Power Plant A First For Black Entrepreneur

California - Pacific Fusion Corp. Lobbies On Fusion Energy Issues

Washington - DOE overhauls the longtime Hanford Nuclear Reservation advisory board

Idaho - Kaleidos microreactor begins journey to Idaho

Utah - Drive for Nuclear Power Boosts Uranium Industry — And Tribal Health Concerns in Southwest

Colorado - The little reactors that could? How SMRs became nuclear's best bet

Wisconsin - New sensors enable real-time tracking to tackle US’ 94,000-ton nuclear waste stockpile

Tennessee - TVA, Kairos Power, Google partner to sustain nuclear demand in East TN during AI boom

Tennessee - Kairos Power announces new partnership to develop nuclear manufacturing

Kentucky - Anthro Energy breaks ground on factory that could pave the road to solid-state batteries

South Carolina - US develops first-of-its-kind smart tools to tackle nuclear waste and cleanup

South Carolina - Savannah River National Lab Wins Award for Nuclear Waste Management Innovation

New York - Radioactive contamination investigation expands into Southtowns

New York - Schumer urges Army to place nuclear microreactor at Fort Drum

Nation - High-speed centrifuge recycles spent nuclear fuel to unlock 90% wasted energy

Nation - Scientists Think We’re Overestimating a Promising Fusion Reactor Ingredient

Western Europe - ITER installs sixth tokamak module six months ahead of schedule

East Asia - Japanese Science Institution Says Heavy Rains may have Caused Leak of Radioactive Materials, but Stresses Safety

East Asia - China completes giant 582-tonne magnet for ‘artificial sun’, Targets fusion energy by 2030

California - As San Onofre dismantling continues, experts to discuss how to handle nuclear waste that remains

California – Video: New deal could bring small nuclear reactors to the Port of Long Beach

Utah - Utah’s nuclear energy ads spark FTC complaint

New Mexico - Secret nuclear weapons report released amid SC, NM factory fight. Here’s what to

Nation - In 1977, the U.S. buried 120,000 tons of radioactive waste in a Pacific ‘nuclear tomb’ - Almost 50 years later, the ocean is threatening to expose the Runit Dome

Northern Europe - World's First Final Storage Facility for Nuclear Waste Advances

Southeast Asia - Radioactive materials found in steel plant during Davao raid

California - New framework cuts errors by 80%, helps scientists predict fusion machine’s hardware changes

New York - As NY pursues nuclear option, here's how the technology works

Oceania - Australian nuclear reactor marks 20 years in service

Central Europe - The nuclear answer to AI's energy problem is running into the climate crisis

South Asia - Government seeks stakeholder comments on nuclear rules and regulations

California - Diamond melting breakthrough could deliver 3x energy gain in laser-driven nuclear fusion

California - Copper endures 2,595°F in US nuclear fusion reactor material test, defies earlier models

Nation - Just 7% of America’s Nuclear Fuel Comes From Home

Nation - Every fusion startup that has raised over $100M

Canada - Many residents unhappy

Northern Europe - Tungsten may suffer more radiation damage in fusion reactors than expected

Central Europe - Can small modular reactors promise a cleaner path for nuclear energy?

South Asia - India opens nuclear power sector to proven foreign reactor technology

South Asia – Video: PM Modi Applauds Fast Breeder Reactor | NDTV Inside India's Secret Nuclear Reactor

South Asia - 100GW of nuclear power by 2047, 5 reactors this decade: inside PM Modi’s energy self-reliance plan

East Asia - China Completes 582-Tonne Magnet For 'Artificial Sun', Eyes Fusion Power By 2030

California - Governor Newsom to Pass Baton on Extending Operations at Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant

Washington - TerraPower expands cooperation with Korean partners

Washington - U.S. TerraPower, South Korea's SK Innovation sign preliminary deal on global SMR projects

Washington - TerraPower Signs Hyundai as EPC for Eight Natrium Reactors

Washington - Doosan Enerbility to supply key SMR components to US TerraPower

Idaho - Opinion: Is Idaho getting ready to buy a nuclear waste pig in a poke?

Wyoming – Video: A dying coal town. A nuclear gamble. Enter Bill Gates. | The Excerpt

Wyoming - Bill Gates-backed nuclear firm eyes eight 345-MW Natrium reactors for US nuclear push

Texas - GE Vernova Hitachi To Support Development Of Texas Gas-plus-nuclear Power Plant

Illinois - The power of collaboration: Argonne and IAEA host school about design and deployment of small modular reactors

Nation - DOE committed to boosting waste-to-energy program

Nation - Once secret report on atomic weapons production released as greens fight plans in SC, NM

Canada - Next-gen molten salt reactor designed to generate 300 to 500 MWe from nuclear waste

Western Europe - It’s Getting So Hot That Nuclear Plants Are Being Forced to Power Down

Southeast Asia - DOE bares potential sites for 7 nuclear power plants

East Asia - Bill Gates arrives in Korea to discuss cooperation in next-generation nuclear reactors

East Asia – Video: Korea seals SMR supply chain pacts with Gates-backed TerraPower amid state visit

California - Deep Fission advances underground reactor pilot program

Washington - DOE approves new waste classification for Hanford tank cleanup

Idaho - Little’s challengers in Idaho gubernatorial race express concern over nuclear innovation campus deal

Idaho - US nuclear reactor hot cell clears 10,000 pounds of legacy gear for advanced testing

Wyoming - Video: Bill Gates’ nuclear plant backers say nuclear power is reliable

Texas - Video: Deep Isolation advances mile-deep nuclear waste disposal demonstration in Texas

Texas - Texas hybrid power project fuses gas turbines with five nuclear SMRs for 2.5 GW

Texas - GE Vernova and Blue Energy Move Forward With 2.5 GW Texas Gas-Nuclear Power Project

Texas - X-Energy gets additional up to $1 billion public US funding for Texas nuclear project

Louisiana - ‘Nuclear tariff’ on power bills would pay for utilities to explore small reactors

Tennessee - State Rep. Ed Butler speaks out against Tennessee plan to take in nuclear waste

Tennessee - TVA's nuclear dreams extend beyond Oak Ridge to new sites in the South

Tennessee - US advances next-gen nuclear reactor fuel deployment through 30-month TRISO-X pact

Virginia - Neighbors concerned about APCO’s plans for small nuclear reactor

Nation - US poll finds support for deep geologic disposal

Nation - US targets 4,000 tons of nuclear fuel recycling with new $2.5 million funding push

Nation - Researchers propose ‘economic Q’ metric for judging fusion power plant viability

Atlantic - Scientists find corroded radioactive waste barrels amid seafloor spills in the Atlantic

Southeastern Europe - Nuclear Power in Romania

Southeast Asia - DOE committed to boosting waste-to-energy program

South Asia - Small modular reactors: How they differ from conventional nuclear plants

South Asia - India plans at least five indigenous small modular reactors by 2033

South Asia - 5 indigenous small modular reactors targeted by 2033, Jitendra Singh tells LS

East Asia - Japan’s Underground Lab Wants to Solve the World’s Nuclear Waste Problem

East Asia - China advances 1.25 GW nuclear reactor construction with first concrete pour

Yucca Mountain - Nevada senators want to ensure Yucca Mountain nuclear repository ‘remains dead’

California - Generational Power: Deep Fission's Gravity Reactor Clears DOE Milestone

Idaho - Hot Fuel Examination Facility at 51: A historic landmark still shaping the future of nuclear energy

Utah - Nuclear power push ramps up uranium mill — and tribal health concerns

Nebraska - Elemental Nuclear, Sandia Labs to partner on sCO₂ Brayton cycle project

Illinois - Argonne celebrates 80 years with cake, community and a look “Beyond the Reactor”

Tennessee - Nuclear Survey Finds Americans See Permanent Waste Disposal as a National Priority

New York - IBM Just Made A Huge Fusion Energy Breakthrough Thanks To Quantum Computing

Massachusetts - MIT's New Framework Aims to Tackle Nuclear Fusion's Money Problem

Nation - 93% of US nuclear reactors’ uranium foreign-sourced as fuel loading hits 41 mn pounds

Oceania - Australian reactor marks 20 years of operations

East Asia - South Korea launches seven SEEDs to drive next-generation tech growth

East Asia - South Korea targets SMRs, fusion among 7 next-generation industries

East Asia - Chinese-Origin Plasma Fueling Technique Wins First Global Fusion Standard by Unanimous Vote

East Asia - Unprecedented US nuclear fusion facility to solve critical tritium crisis for reactors

South Asia - Parliament flags uranium shortfall: Why domestic mining matters

Yucca Mountain - Europe has picked a 90.7-kilometer ring for the machine that follows the Large Hadron Collider, and the last country that tried building something that size sank 17 shafts under Texas, bored 14 miles of tunnel and then let the groundwater have it

California - Valar Atomics Stock: Small Reactors, Big Ambitions

California - Antares Raises $470M Series C to Deploy Nuclear Microreactors for US Military

Washington - Contracts worth $4B awarded for disposing of more Eastern WA nuclear

Washington - In 1999, Oregon shipped a 1,000-ton nuclear reactor vessel 270 miles up the Columbia river, then buried it in Washington

Wyoming - Bill Gates is building a $4-billion nuclear facility in a Wyoming coal town of just 2,400. Locals are 'split'

New Mexico - New Mexico advocates urge feds to move barrels of radioactive waste amid wildfire risk

Nebraska - Supercritical carbon dioxide generators target 1 MW power for data centers by 2027

Tennessee - TRISO-X and Oak Ridge National Laboratory Extend Advanced Nuclear Fuel Research Partnership

Tennessee - Advancing Fusion Fuel Cycles with New Technology

Maryland - Inside Three-Mile Island’s Quest to Clear Restart Hurdles

New York - A 1981 state report warned about radioactive slag and contamination in Niagara County

Nation - Unlocking $50 Billion Across The Nuclear Value Chain

Nation - America is turning decades-old radioactive waste into strontium-90 power systems that could keep underwater sensors running for decades

Western Pacific - Senator warns Guam could pay the price for the Japanese nuclear waste problem

Canada - Did Sask. pick coal to power its energy future for financial reasons, or political ones?

Oceania - The multi-purpose reactor OPAL, now in its 20th year, is not a power reactor

United Kingdom - Latest MAST Upgrade experiments achieve milestones

Western Europe - Jellyfish Swarm Overwhelms Nuclear Power Plant For The Second Time In 2 Years

East Asia - Kyoto Fusioneering starts work on key fusion power plant device

South Asia - Why India Had To Open Its Nuclear Power Sector

Yucca Mountain - Video: Sen. Jacky Rosen: Yucca Mountain Bill Could End Nuclear Waste Dump Plan

Yucca Mountain - Congress 2026: Domestic Uranium Enrichment and Yucca Mountain Bills Explained

Yucca Mountain - Capitalizing on community

Idaho - The view from proving grounds for next-generation nuclear reactors: Atomic City, Idaho

Ohio - In 1989, Ohio's Fernald uranium plant stopped production; a $4.4 billion cleanup transformed the 1,050-acre site into wetlands, prairie and forest

Florida - Tritium Betavoltaic Cells Aim to Support Future Lunar Bases Testing aboard an orbiting CubeSat is a first for the technology

Massachusetts - MIT researchers tackle the economic realities of fusion power

Canada - A nuclear option for Bermuda’s energy future

United Kingdom - Autonomous Waste Transport at Sellafield: Proof of Concept

United Kingdom - Research Reactors Power Advances in Medicine, Science and Industry

United Kingdom - Practical nuclear fusion milestone achieved, higher plasma pressure feat recorded

Central Europe - When extreme heat threatens Europe's nuclear power

West Asia - SMRs expected to provide one-quarter of new global nuclear capacity by 2050

East Asia - Taiwan’s Nuclear Reversal

East Asia - Korea, Sweden discuss nuclear waste oversight

Idaho - ARC Clean Technology signs partnership with Idaho National Laboratory to advance ARC-100 sodium-cooled fast reactor deployment

Wyoming - America's energy future? Gates, Buffett and a Wyoming town go nuclear

Arkansas - Report makes case for nuclear plants, picks potential sites

Nation - What Does It Take to Reopen a Nuclear Power Plant?

Nation - Nuclear Energy Draws Trillion Dollar Wall Street Investment

United Arab Emirates - SMRs expected to provide one-quarter of new global nuclear capacity by 2050

West Asia - SMRs to drive quarter of global nuclear capacity growth by 2050

East Asia - Pillar of Great Power: Hualong One nuclear technology gets major upgrade

South Asia - Why Nuclear Energy is Vital For Pakistan’s Future – And How To Begin Preparing

South Asia - India’s Uranium Requirement Fuelling Its Nuclear Power Expansion

California - Berkeley Lab's New Fusion Materials Breakthrough, Explained

Utah - A compact, transportable nuclear reactor may come to Utah under new agreement

Wyoming - Beneath a Wyoming coal town’s last smokestack, 345 megawatts of liquid metal just broke ground, and the tank buried beside the reactor is the reason every grid manager in America took notice

Texas - US Hospitals Import Every Medical Isotope; Oklo’s Reactor Just Went Critical

Illinois - Nine Illinois communities express interest in hosting new nuclear facilities in response to state NOI

Tennessee - ORNL and Type One Energy advance fusion fuel cycle with innovative technologies

South Carolina - SRS cuts 300 waste canisters to speed nuclear cleanup

South Carolina - Savannah River National Laboratory researchers make sense of science at competitive research slam

Nation - Nuclear Fuel Deals Frame the Future of Advanced Reactors

Nation - Many Things Considered: More on the Trump Plan for Nuke Waste

United Kingdom - Drought and scorching heatwaves threaten Europe’s vision of a nuclear-powered future

United Kingdom - Letter: Nuclear waste at Hinkley Point C must be considered

Western Europe - 1,100 Plasma Shots Reveal Four Paths to Commercial Fusion

Central Europe - This Week's Top 5: Hydrogen, Nuclear and bp's Biogas Energy

East Asia - Clean Energy: China's artificial sun moves from lab to reality under 15th Five-Year Plan

East Asia - Video: China's homegrown nuclear reactor just got a major upgrade

East Asia - Video: Beijing Pushes Fusion into Industry | Fusion Named a Key Priority in China's 2026-2030 National Plan

California - Port of Long Beach, DOT Sign First-of-Its-Kind SMR Agreement

California - Nuclear startup Oklo splits its first atoms in test reactor

California - Deep Fission’s Underground Reactor Wins Safety Approval

California - Three L.A. Area Companies Are Making Nuclear Generators

Washington - US buried 56 million gallons of highly radioactive waste in 177 underground tanks in 1990, now experts will use it to make 4.2 metric tons of glass daily

Idaho - The space race has gone nuclear

New Mexico - The Future of Advanced Nuclear Comes Together in Los Alamos, NM on August 25

New Mexico - The Target 4 Flight Path 15R is in building 1302 with an available path length of 13–29m from the T4 spallation target.

Texas - Groves Isotope Test Reactor reaches criticality in US nuclear milestone

Wisconsin - Undeclared uranium hitches a ride on cobalt exports from Congo, study says

Tennessee - Thorium Atomics Begins Pre-Application Engagement with U.S. NRC for Advanced Reactor

Alabama - Rep. Dale Strong supports talks to revive Bellefonte with new nuclear reactors

Massachusetts -ORNL, Rutherford Energy Ventures launch fusion partnership

Nation - US collaboration to study used nuclear fuel recycling

Nation - Advanced Reactors Face a Much Harder Commercial Test

Nation - Office of Nuclear Energy Celebrates Fifth Advanced Reactor Criticality

Nation - DOE Selects Five Finalist States for Nuclear Lifecycle Innovation Campuses

Canada - Expert warns SMR expansion could increase Canada’s reliance on U.S. nuclear fuel

United Kingdom - MAST Upgrade achieves fusion research milestone

United Kingdom - Brit boffins boast of beating barriers to building fusion power

United Kingdom - New nuclear fusion power plant planned to be built in UK

United Kingdom - Oxfordshire nuclear energy project breaks plasma record

Western Europe - International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor project, France – update

Western Europe - Nuclear fusion reactors benefit from first-ever silver crystal tritium separation

Western Europe - Nuclear Reactors Keep Emitting a Hidden Signal Long After They Shut Down

Central Europe - Research Reactors Drive Innovation in Science, Health, and Industry

South Africa - Dealing with radioactive nuclear waste in South Africa

East Asia - Japan supports MHI next-gen reactors

South Asia - Land need for small nuclear reactor can shrink by a third: Government

Yucca Mountain - Nevada tariff lawsuit, Yucca Mountain bill and Ward Fire

Yucca Mountain - Why some Republicans want to bring nuclear waste home

California - Nuclear startup Oklo splits its first atoms in test reactor

California - DOE Approves Safety Design of Deep Fission’s Underground SMR

California - One-mile underground nuclear reactor wins DOE safety approval for commercial pilot

New Mexico - LANL ZiaCore reaches criticality

Texas - Oklo's Small Reactor Passes a Major Nuclear Test

Texas - US test reactors achieve milestones

Texas - Oklo’s Groves Becomes Fifth DOE Pilot Reactor to Reach Criticality, First on Private Land

Texas - Oklo’s Isotope Test Reactor achieves criticality

Texas - US nuclear startup achieves first reactor criticality in under one year at Texas site

Arkansas - Arkansas lawmakers set the groundwork for nuclear sites across the state

Arkansas - New nuclear reactors feasible in Arkansas but government support needed, panel told

Tennessee - TVA in 'fast-paced' talks for new nuclear reactors at Alabama's Bellefonte site

Tennessee - Four cryogenic reactor fueling technologies to unlock continuous fusion power in US

Ohio - X-Energy and Centrus sign HALEU supply agreement

Virginia - North Anna power plant seeks ESP renewal

Pennsylvania - Westinghouse, Amentum team up to speed up next-generation nuclear reactors

Maryland - Critical uranium deal moves America’s next-gen nuclear reactors closer to reality

Maryland - X-energy secures graphite supply

Delaware - What's the future for nuclear energy in Delaware? Task force presents findings

Vermont - Vernon presses for clarity on Vermont Yankee redevelopment

New York - Will New York bet big on nuclear?

Nation - What does the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) do?

Nation - Three nuclear firms explore recycled materials as fuel for next-generation reactors

Canada - NWMO reveals design for Centre of Expertise

Canada - To help solve the North's ‘energy deficit’, Ottawa looks at nuclear options

Canada - Ontario invests in medical radioisotope production at McMaster

Canada - Thorium fuel demo moves ahead

United Kingdom - NPL on why metrology is critical to the future of nuclear energy

Eastern Europe - How radiation engineering applied lessons from Hiroshima to the Chernobyl and Fukushima meltdowns

Southern Europe - Italy’s Nuclear Comeback: A Matter of Sovereignty

East Asia - Before the next nuclear crisis, listen to those who lived through the last one

Yucca Mountain - ‘Yucca Mountain is dead’: 5 other states targeted for nuclear waste hubs

Yucca Mountain - Nuclear waste delivers a political haymaker. Five states say it can be done.

California - Valar Atomics Raises $1B to Scale Advanced Nuclear Reactors for Data Centers

Idaho - America built nuclear power in Idaho first. Now it’s doing it again.

Utah - Proposed Utah nuclear innovation campus could bring opportunities for Sanpete County

New Mexico - LANL’s ZiaCore Microreactor Achieves Historic Milestone

Louisiana - Entergy to consider deployment of Holtec's SMR-300

Tennessee - Tennessee May Accept Nuclear Waste In Partnership With Federal Government

Tennessee - In Knoxville, Gov. Lee touts TN nuclear growth as waste site worries linger

Virginia - EDF taps Technip for EPR2 buildout

Pennsylvania - Westinghouse updates: AP1000 potential, IPO, Amentum partnership

New Jersey - Oyster Creek eyes SMR revival

Massachusetts - CFS secures fusion funding boost

Nation - The U.S. produced plutonium for Cold War nuclear weapons in Washington. Decades later, 56 million gallons of highly radioactive waste remain

Nation - US team achieves 87% nuclear fusion reactor wall purity using plasma and 1472°F heat

Canada - Canada’s push for a ‘nuclear renaissance’

Canada - New building set for Ignace expected to open in 2028

United Kingdom - Plymouth University opens rare nuclear research lab

Western Europe - France Closes 3 Nuclear Reactors as Drought Lowers River Flows

Western Europe - Europe looks to French fusion in race for unlimited clean energy

Northern Europe - Finland moves closer to world’s first geological nuclear fuel disposal site

Northern Europe - World’s first nuclear waste repository with 100,000-year lifespan secures major approval

Middle East - Nuclear Energy’s Inflection Point: Strategic Momentum and Enduring Challenges

East Asia - A glowing future for nuclear power? Mini reactors explained

East Asia - 60-MW BANDI reactor able to power 150,000 homes pitched for marine nuclear use

Southeastern Europe - Fresh 10-year decommissioning licence issued for Kozloduy 3 and 4

South Asia - Intellectual Property Protection Under SHANTI Act: Promotion of innovation in India’s nuclear energy push

Yucca Mountain - Rosen, Cortez Masto introduce bill overturning law establishing Yucca Mountain as nuclear waste repository

Yucca Mountain - Nevada senators want to ensure Yucca Mountain nuclear repository ‘remains dead’

California - Gas-cooled 300 MW hybrid reactor for electricity, hydrogen clears early review

Idaho - New nuclear campus deal would require Idaho to accept, stores spent nuclear fuel, radioactive waste

Utah - Opinion: Utah is the national leader in energy

Texas - American Fusion’s Texatron clears first lab tests in early fusion energy milestone

Illinois - US-Canada firms tie-up to advance thorium nuclear fuel testing in reactors

Tennessee - Tennessee Named Finalist in Nuclear Lifecycle Innovation Campus

Tennessee - Tennessee could get $50B for storing nuclear waste. The state won’t say where it plans to put it

Tennessee - Gov predicts Tennessee will be a finalist for nuclear campus

Michigan - SMR-300 reactors could deliver 680 MW of carbon-free power to US data centers

Nation - A closer look at the initial NLIC selections—Part 1

Nation - Meet 7 of the fastest submarines ever to dive beneath the ocean waves

Canada - BWXT sells medical business for USD800 million

Canada - GUTOR 80: UPS, Battery Charger, & Inverter Solutions for Nuclear Applications, Built to ASME NQA-1

United Kingdom - ONR helps shape international toolkit to support cooperation in assessment of advanced reactors

Western Europe - Brussels Energy Brief: fusion to the fore in Europe

Western Europe - France shuts down 3 nuclear reactors as drought lowers river flows

Central Europe - Hungary avoids nuclear shutdown by 'millimetres' as Danube rises

Northern Europe - Finnish regulator gives positive decision on used fuel repository

East Asia - 8 Chinese nuclear reactors awarded $25bn government funding

East Asia - China Greenlights $25 Billion Nuclear Power Projects Across Four Provinces

East Asia - Gyeongnam welcomes SMR designation as national strategic technology

East Asia - Korea’s Nuclear Waste Site Gets Seven-Robot Fleet to Slash Radiation Exposure

California - Fusion energy startup signs five-year research agreement with the U.S. government

California - Nuclear fusion persists at ultralow energies inside metal foils

Idaho - Strategic Partnership Aims to Deploy First-of-a-Kind Reactor

Idaho - ARC partners with INL for SMR deployment

Idaho - New nuclear campus deal would require Idaho to accept, store spent nuclear fuel, radioactive waste

Idaho - A US national lab is helping build the small nuclear reactor that could power AI data centers

New Mexico - LANL’s ZiaCore microreactor reaches criticality

Oklahoma - The Nuclear Campus Pitch Came With a Catch: Oklahoma Could Store Spent Fuel From Around the Nation

South Carolina - South Carolina didn't make the shortlist of states to host a Nuclear Lifecycle Innovation Campus

Maryland - Nuclear graphite output doubles for pebble-bed reactors with eight-unit annual capacity

New Jersey - Historic U.S. nuclear site eyes four SMR-300 reactors after 49 years of service

Massachusetts - Commonwealth Fusion Systems raises a further USD1 billion

Nation - Will Siting Keep SMRs From Reaching Critical Mass?

Western Europe - Belgium executes a fundamental U-turn on nuclear power

Western Europe - Germany steps up fusion investment

Central Europe - IAEA launches new fusion research project to strengthen global small and medium device network

Southwestern Europe - Four decades after Chernobyl, a generational divide reshapes Italy's nuclear debate

Southeastern Europe - Greece Launches Nuclear Energy Debate as Power Needs Grow

Southeastern Europe - Romania blasts rocks to reroute cooling Danube water to nuclear reactor

Central Asia - Uzbekistan’s Nuclear Power Plant Project Advances

East Asia - BEST tokamak moves toward 2030 goal

South Asia - NPCIL Seeks Bids For Engineering And 3D Design Of Bharat Small Reactors

Yucca Mountain - Tennessee on list of 5 states to potentially host Nuclear Lifecycle Innovation program

Washington - Feds ask Richland to annex highly contaminated Hanford land. Here’s why

Idaho - U.S. Commerce Department awards $31 million to Idaho-Wyoming nuclear tech hub, bringing total investment to $40 million

Utah - Utah wants help saving Great Salt Lake in exchange for hosting federal nuclear hub

Tennessee - Tennessee on list of 5 states to potentially host Nuclear Lifecycle Innovation program

Nation - NRC issues proposed rule to update radioactive material transportation regulations for new reactor technologies

Canada - Canada built its nuclear industry to avoid foreign fuel. Its new reactors will depend on it

Canada - Carney Talks About Energy Sovereignty. His New Nuclear Reactors Depend on Foreign Fuel.

International - 5 Disadvantages Of Nuclear Energy (And Why AI Might Make Them Harder To Ignore)

Western Europe - Supercomputer Reveals Why Fusion Plasma’s Goldilocks Regime Actually Works

East Asia - Chinese Government Approves Eight New Nuclear Units as Major Reactor Buildout Continues

Idaho - Inside the Secret Lab Behind the World’s First Sodium-Cooled SMR Launch

Idaho - Many Things Considered: Trump Has a Nuke Waste Plan for Idaho

Idaho - US: First of kind 100 MW sodium cooled small modular reactor deployment gets a boost

Wyoming - Bill Gates Bets on Nuclear Energy, TerraPower Draws Market Attention

Nation - Task force rules out small nuclear power plants as short-term solution

Nation - Nuclear Microreactor Clears Criticality: Crusoe Plans AI Factory Data Center Test

Nation - DOE Selects Five States as Nuclear Lifecycle Innovation Campuses

Southeastern Europe - Nuclear Regulator Grants 10-Year Licence to Decommission Kozloduy Units 3 and 4

East Asia - Japan aims to rebuild 2-5 nuclear reactors by 2040s

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