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Santee Cooper shortlists proposals to restart South Carolina nuclear plant Comes as power needs of US data centers continue to rocket

Santee Cooper shortlists proposals to restart South Carolina nuclear plant - DCD www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/sant...

Radiant in Deal to Deliver Its Microreactor to USAF Radiant in Deal Deliver Its Microreactor to USAF Radiant Chosen for Testing at INL DOME Facility Radiant to Manufacture a Microreactor in Wyoming General Matter Gets DOE Lease at Paducah for Uraniu…

Radiant in Deal to Deliver Its Microreactor to USAF
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Last Energy Earns PDR Milestone at UK Office of Nuclear Regulation Last Energy Earns PDR Milestone at UK Office of Nuclear Regulation Italy’s Newcleo Calls It Quits for Lead Cooled Reactor Helion Starts Work on Fusion Power Plant Fusion Industry Sees Signifi…

Last Energy Earns PDR Milestone at UK Office of Nuclear Regulation
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Jerome, ID, Nuclear Project Unlikely to Proceed In a column published 07/31/25 in the Idaho Statesman, reporter Brian Clark writes that a proposal to build a 462 MW (6 77 MW NucScale SMRs) at  site 15 miles north of the small farming town o…

Jerome, ID, Nuclear Project Unlikely to Proceed neutronbytes.com/2025/07/31/j...

Cleaning Up Inconsistencies in DOE-EM Cleanup The General Accounting Office (GAO), with the assistance of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), is examining the legal and regulatory framework for the Department of Energy’s (DOE) nuclea…

Cleaning Up Inconsistencies in DOE-EM Cleanup
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Most people don't know that the gaseous diffusion plant was a monster consumer of electricity. TVA's power plants made it possible. No one today would build one for the simple reason that there is no economic case for it. The process used globally to enrich uranium is gas centrifuge.

NRC Approves Restart of Palisades NPP NRC Approves Restart of Palisades NPP Sizewell C Gets Final Investment Decision ORNL, Atomic Canyon Advance Nuclear Licensing with AI INL Partners with Amazon Web Services to Develop AI Tools TVA a…

NRC Approves Restart of Palisades NPP - full report.
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A historic first: Palisades Nuclear Plant gets operating license reauthorized by NRC Palisades Nuclear Plant has made history in the U.S. Nuclear Industry.

BREAKING - Palisades Nuclear Plant gets operating license reauthorized by NRC
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Rally protesting NASA Glenn Budget Cuts held on anniversary of moon landing Concerns are rising in the Buckeye state about proposed budget cuts to NASA Glenn Research Center in Cleveland in 2026.

Rally protesting NASA Glenn Budget Cuts held in Cleveland, OH, on anniversary of moon landing
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Support the NASA Voyager Declaration Now! — STAND UP FOR SCIENCE Your solidarity with the NASA heroes helps their fight to preserve NASA's vital missions.

In response to the Trump administration’s dismantling cuts and devastating attacks on NASA programs and missions, NASA workers publish their Voyager Declaration. www.standupforscience.net/nasa-voyager...

China Takes the Lead in Fusion Energy China Takes the Lead in Fusion Energy Avalanche Energy Announces  Fusion Test Facility Pacific Fusion to Build $1 Billion Fusion Test Facility in Albuquerque European Commission Approves €202 Milli…

China Takes the Lead in Fusion Energy
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Westinghouse Rolls the Dice With Plan to Build 10 AP1000s Westinghouse Rolls the Dice With Plan to Build 10 AP1000s Westinghouse, Google Partner to Use AI to Build Reactors INL Collaborates with Microsoft to Streamline Nuclear Licensing Oklo Selects Kiewi…

Westinghouse Rolls the Dice With Plan to Build 10 AP1000s
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Startup Plans NuScale SMRs in a Rural Idaho Town Startup Plans NuScale SMRs in a Rural Idaho Town A Legacy of Invisible Nuclear Power Plants in the West Startup Plans NuScale SMRs in a Rural Idaho Town Firm faces red flags over claims of deals wi…

Startup Plans NuScale SMRs in a Rural Idaho Town. Firm faces red flags over claims of deals with NuScale and Idaho Power. neutronbytes.com/2025/07/19/s...

Texas Firm Plans Four AP1000s at Amarillo Texas Firm Plans Four AP1000s at Amarillo, TX, Site EDF to Invest £1.1 Billion in UK Sizewell C Nuclear Project Canada’s ARC Completes Key Design Review In Bid To License SMR Italy’s SOLO Mic…

Texas Firm Plans Four AP1000s at Amarillo
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Voyager's fuel for power is a solid form composed of the non weapons isotope PU238. It is a "sealed source" and cannot leak like a liquid.

Breaking News - The NRC received a license application to build 4 1,150 MW Westinghouse AP1000 nuclear reactors at a site northeast of Amarillo, TX t.co/UqdYOJJDMu

7/20 Stand Up for Science Cleveland NASA Glenn Protest Press Release Stand Up for Science, ClevelandOrganizes Rally for NASA Glenn on Anniversary of Moon Landing CLEVELAND, OH July 7, 2025 Contact: standupforsciencecleveland@gmail.com 216-706-9484 Who: Stand Up...

Stand Up for Science, Cleveland, organizing protest of budget cuts to NASA Glenn, 07/20/25 2-4 PM Willard Park, downtown Cleveland (press release)
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7/20 Stand Up for Science Cleveland NASA Glenn Protest Press Release Stand Up for Science, ClevelandOrganizes Rally for NASA Glenn on Anniversary of Moon Landing CLEVELAND, OH July 7, 2025 Contact: standupforsciencecleveland@gmail.com 216-706-9484 Who: Stand Up...

Stand Up for Science, Cleveland, organizing protest of budget cuts to NASA Glenn, 07/20/25 2-4 PM Willard Park, downtown Cleveland (press release)
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Google Bets on the Future of Fusion with Commonwealth and TEA Google Bets on the Future of Fusion with Commonwealth Google’s Investment in TAE Fusion Google v. Microsoft in Commitments to Fusion Power DOE Announces First Microreactor Experiments in INL DOME T…

Google Bets on the Future of Fusion with Commonwealth and TEA
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Holtec CEO Says Firm Will Go Public Holtec CEO Says Firm Will Go Public Terrestrial Energy and Ameresco to Develop IMSR Plants New York to Build New Nuclear Plant at Upstate Site AI Software Giant Palantir and The Nuclear Company Par…

Holtec CEO Says Firm Will Go Public
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Former NRC Officials Send Letter of Protest on the Firing of Commissioner Hanson On June 16th President Donald Trump fired a Democratic commissioner for Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The action is part of the Trump Administrations efforts to reign in the authority of independe…

Former NRC Officials Send Letter of Protest on the Firing of Commissioner Hanson
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TerraPower Lands $650 Million Investment TerraPower Lands $650 Million in New Investment Funding UK Hinkley Point C Gets £4.5 Billion in Private Loan Asian Development Bank May Lift Ban On Nuclear Power Projects  ARC Clean Technology…

TerraPower Lands $650 Million in New Investment Funding
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Stanford’s Questionable Study on Spent Nuclear Fuel for SMRs A Stanford University and University of British Columbia study into the waste streams from three proposed small modular reactor (SMR) designs predicts complex technical problems and high costs that…

On the other hand, the peer review process could have been more rigorous for this paper. Numerous technical experts commented on gaps in the paper as well as what appear to be deliberate omissions of facts. Details here neutronbytes.com/2022/05/31/s...

OKLO Microreactor Set for Alaskan Air Force Base OKLO Microreactor Selected for Alaskan Air Force Base Oklo Announces $400 Million Public Offering of Common Stock Standard Nuclear Emerges from Stealth with $42 Million in Series A Funding Utah San…

OKLO Microreactor Set for Alaskan Air Force Base
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UK Awards £2.5B for a Rolls-Royce SMR; Funds Sizewell C for £14.2B Rolls-Royce SMR Selected To Build a Single 470 MW SMR Rolls-Royce SMR selected as preferred bidder to build country’s first small modular reactor Follows a two-year competition to select nuclear te…

Analysis: Can Gov’ts and Utilities Build Nuclear Reactors at Fleet Scale?
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UK Awards £2.5B for a Rolls-Royce SMR; Funds Sizewell C for £14.2B Rolls-Royce SMR Selected To Build a Single 470 MW SMR Rolls-Royce SMR selected as preferred bidder to build country’s first small modular reactor Follows a two-year competition to select nuclear te…

Neutron Bytes coverage of UK government funding commitments for Sizewell C and small modular reactors has been updated at of 06/11/25.

UK Awards £2.5B for a Rolls-Royce SMR; Funds Sizewell C for £14.2B
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UK Awards £2.5 Billion for a Rolls-Royce SMR; Funds £14.2 Billion for Sizewell C.
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Meta Signs 20 Year Power Deal with Constellation Meta Signs 20 Year Power Deal with Constellation Czech-KHNP Dukovany Contract Signed After Court Lifts Injunction Allseas Plans Rapid SMR Deployment in Ships New Danish Nuclear Power Fund Targets R…

Meta Signs 20 Year Power Deal with Constellation
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Czech-KHNP Dukovany contract signed after court lifts injunction The contract with Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power for new nuclear capacity at the Dukovany site in the Czech Republic has been signed - hours after the Supreme Administrative Court annulled a reg...

Update: The contract with Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power for new nuclear capacity at the Dukovany site in the Czech Republic has been signed - hours after the Supreme Administrative Court annulled a regional court's injunction to stop it happening
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A Proposal for Uranium Enrichment in the Middle East File written by Adobe Photoshop? 4.0 There is a lot going on right now in the Middle East with the US trying to get a new nuclear deal with Iran while balancing threats from Israel to bomb Iran and…

A Proposal for Uranium Enrichment in the Middle East
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