Author: Fission Today

Nuclear costs of the Iran War   To create a nuclear disaster, it’s not necessary to directly hit the containment building. Damaging on-site and off-site power necessary for cooling can also have severe repercussions. even reactors in stand-by modes pose radioactive risks in a war zone.  In spite of all this, Director General of the IAEA Grossi promotes rules of the road to help nuclear energy continue operating in warzones. It is a stark reminder that the IAEA’s major mission is to promote nuclear energy, despite the emerging lessons from two “nuclearized” wars. April 11, 2026 by beyondnuclearinternational, Trump’s recent threats to end…

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A Florida-based startup intends to build factory-produced nuclear systems designed to fit in shipping containers and run for 30 years without refueling. Here’s how the technology works—and where it stands. The global appetite for electricity is surging. Data centers, industrial electrification, and perhaps a coming wave of humanoid robotics are layering exponential demand onto a grid that was never designed for it. Renewables alone can’t fill the gap, and conventional nuclear, with its decade-long construction timelines and ballooning budgets, moves too slowly. Into that opening steps AMPERA, a Palm Beach Gardens–headquartered company that emerged from stealth in November 2025 with…

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Idaho Lab Opens Its DOME Nuclear Test Bed Antares Gets Approval from DOE for its Documented Safety Analysis NRC Opens the Door to Streamlined Commercial Licensing for DOE/DOW Advanced Reactors Fluor Signs Contract With X-Energy for Advanced Nuclear Project in Texas USAF Plans Microreactors for Two Key U.S. Bases by 2030 First Criticality For Indian Fast Breeder Reactor ARC Clean Technology Signs Term Sheet for a 100 MW SMR in Turkey GE Vernova Seeks Market Share for BWRX-300 in Multiple EU Countries Idaho Lab Opens Its DOME Nuclear Test Bed DOME, world’s first nuclear reactor test bed, is ready for…

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Hiroshima Prefecture and the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (“ICAN”), the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, will hold the Hiroshima-ICAN Academy on Nuclear Weapons and Global Security 2026. Through this program, we aim to nurture global leaders who can make concrete contributions towards a more peaceful and secure world. Join us for this opportunity to meet and learn together with inspiring, diverse individuals from around the world) Hiroshima Session of the 2025 Academy Message from the Organisers   Navigation:   In April 2019, Hiroshima Prefecture and ICAN signed a memorandum of understanding on collaboration in the field of human…

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Trump accelerates new nuclear warhead production, nearly doubles funding for plutonium “pit” bomb core production. The Pentagon has always explicitly rejected “minimum-deterrence” in favor of keeping “counterforce” capabilities to wage nuclear war. This is why the U.S. has thousands of nuclear weapons and a $2 trillion “modernization” program to keep them forever. Indefinitely maintaining and expanding nuclear capabilities is contrary to the 1970 NonProliferation Treaty None of this future pit production is to maintain the safety and reliability of the existing stockpile, but instead is entirely for new-design nuclear weapons The Trump 2027 budget speeds up this backwards trend. For nuclear warhead…

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Cassidy DeLine has spent more than 16 years developing renewable power plants. Now, as the founder and CEO of Linea Energy, she’s building an independent power producer that she believes can do the work better, not by tearing up the playbook, but by running every play better. As a guest on The Power Podcast, DeLine laid out the philosophy, strategy, and ambitions behind Linea’s rapid rise. Better Data, Earlier Decisions, and Smarter Risk Management At the heart of DeLine’s thesis is a deceptively simple idea: developers make too many high-stakes decisions with bad information. Traditionally, detailed site data, such as…

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INL Partners with NVIDIA for Nuclear AI Applications ORNL, Kairos Power Ink $27M Partnership for Advanced Reactors Deep Fission Raises $80 Million in New Financing Radiant Adds Lockheed Martin as Strategic Investor NuCube Energy Raises $13 Million for HTGR Microreactor ASP Isotopes Business Unit Opens Office in Austin, TX Romania’s Prime Minister Favors PHWR Upgrades Over NuScale’s SMRs INL Partners with NVIDIA for Nuclear AI Applications  Idaho National Laboratory to accelerate nuclear energy deployment with NVIDIA AI The Idaho National Laboratory (INL) and NVIDIA have partnered to support nuclear energy deployment through artificial intelligence. The purpose of the collaboration is…

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When fundamental particles are heavier or lighter than expected, physicists’ understanding of the universe can tip into the unknown. A particle that is just beyond its predicted mass can unravel scientists’ assumptions about the forces that make up all of matter and space. But now, a new precision measurement has reset the balance and confirmed scientists’ theories, at least for one of the universe’s core building blocks.In a paper appearing today in the journal Nature, an international team including MIT physicists reports a new, ultraprecise measurement of the mass of the W boson.The W boson is one of two elementary…

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This briefing paper summarizes key points for states to raise at the 2026 Review Conference of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons taking place in New York, 27 April – 22 May in regard to the threat posed to the non-proliferation regime by the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran. The paper is available as a PDF here.     Source link

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