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Kansas site selected for underground reactor demo

2025-12-05 15:32:24

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#^Kansas site selected for underground reactor demo

California-based startup Deep Fission has chosen Great Plains Industrial Park in Parsons, Kansas, for its pilot project and plans to a build a full-scale commercial plant there following the test reactor demonstration.

First nuclear fuel delivered for Kudankulam unit 3

2025-12-05 14:41:19

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#^First nuclear fuel delivered for Kudankulam unit 3

The first delivery has taken place of nuclear fuel for the initial loading of Kudankulam nuclear power plant’s unit 3 in India.

Brazilian development bank gauges consultancy interest in uranium expansion

2025-12-05 13:46:00

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#^Brazilian development bank gauges consultancy interest in uranium expansion

A Request for Information has been launched by Brazil's National Bank for Economic and Social Development for consulting firms interested in participating in the structuring of Indústrias Nucleares do Brasil's uranium production expansion project.

First fuel produced for molten salt reactor experiment

2025-12-04 16:33:52

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#^First fuel produced for molten salt reactor experiment

Idaho National Laboratory has launched full-scale production of enriched fuel salt for the world's first test of a molten chloride salt fast reactor - technology that could be deployed as soon as the 2030s for both terrestrial and maritime applications.

Deep Isolation completes three-year waste canister project

2025-12-04 15:36:17

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#^Deep Isolation completes three-year waste canister project

Project UPWARDS has culminated in the manufacture, physical testing and validation of a disposal-ready Universal Canister System for used nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste from advanced reactors.

‘Philanthropy can help nuclear energy growth in emerging economies’

2025-12-04 14:14:58

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#^‘Philanthropy can help nuclear energy growth in emerging economies’

A Rockefeller Foundation study sees nuclear potentially delivering 20% of electricity generation in eight key emerging economies by 2050 - and says that philanthropy can play a "catalytic role" in making it happen.

TAE, UKAEA create joint venture

2025-12-04 11:45:26

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#^TAE, UKAEA create joint venture

US private fusion energy company TAE Technologies and the UK Atomic Energy Authority have announced a bilateral and reciprocal investment commitment to commercialise TAE's proprietary particle accelerator technology for the global market.

Bilibino’s units being shut down for decommissioning

2025-12-04 11:22:10

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#^Bilibino’s units being shut down for decommissioning

The three operable units at the Bilibino Nuclear Power Plant in Chukotka, Russia, are all to be permanently shut down by the end of the year.

Two SMR projects selected for US federal funding

2025-12-03 15:09:52

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#^Two SMR projects selected for US federal funding

The US Department of Energy has selected Tennessee Valley Authority and Holtec to each receive USD400 million in federal cost-shared funding to support early deployments of advanced light-water small modular reactors in the USA.

Laurentis, BWXT and CNPSA sign Bulgarian new nuclear contract

2025-12-03 13:39:18

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#^Laurentis, BWXT and CNPSA sign Bulgarian new nuclear contract

The three-company consortium has signed an owner’s engineer contract to advance two new AP1000 units at Bulgaria’s Kozloduy Nuclear Power Plant.