Artist’s rendering of TerraPower’s Natrium advanced nuclear reactor project planned for Kemmerer, Wyoming (Credit: US DOE) US-based TerraPower is replacing Bechtel as the lead engineering, procurement ...

The US Department of Commerce has signed four Letters of Intent (LOIs) with four companies to provide up to $389m in federal R&D awards under the CHIPS and Science Act to support the development of ...

Russia’s nuclear regulator Rostekhnadzor has issued a 10-year licence for unit 6 of the Zaporizhia NPP (ZNPP). “Obtaining the licence is another stage in the systematic work to complete the plant’s ...

Chicago-based Clean Core Thorium Energy (CCTE) has confirmed that its patented ANEEL (Advanced Nuclear Energy for Enriched Life) fuel successfully reached a burnup of over 60 GWd/MTU (gigawatt-days ...

Centrus Energy has signed a contract to finalise the terms of the competitively-awarded, $900m task order it received from the US Department of Energy (DOE) earlier this year. The award will support ...

Introducing the UK Nuclear Waste Services, NWS Annual Review 2023-24 Look ahead NWS Chair of the Board Adriènne Kelbie said the vital role Nuclear Waste Services (NWS) “is delivering a vital vision – ...

US-based Centrus Energy has completed the acquisition of Westerman Holdings for approximately $116m funded through a combination of approximately $95m cash on hand and $21m of equity. This brings a ...

Russia’s 300 MWe BREST-OD-300 lead-cooled fast reactor is expected to begin operations in 2028 or 2029 (Source: Rosatom) The latest version of the International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) Small ...

A potential sequence of events affecting safety, beginning with a grid disturbance, was identified in the safety analyses of unit 3 at Finland’s Olkiluoto NPP. Immediate corrective actions were taken ...

An International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Integrated Review Service for Radioactive Waste and Spent Fuel Management, Decommissioning and Remediation (Artemis) team of experts found that Kenya is ...

US-based start-up NANO Nuclear Energy has signed a three-year non-exclusive Engineering Services Master Agreement (ESMA) with the US subsidiary of Argentina’s IMPSA (Industrias Metalúrgicas Pescarmona ...

Canadian-US global investment firm Brookfield and US start-up The Nuclear Company (TNC) have announced a partnership to form a new company, as yet unnamed, to promote development of Westinghouse ...