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NRIC Selects 4 Startups for Its Nuclear Energy Launch Pad NRIC Opens 2nd Round for Launch Pad Applications. DOME is also Available for Testing ARPA-E & DOE Offer $50 Million to Develop Transuranic Fuels for Advanced Reactors DOE Aims to Remover Roadblocks to Put Nuclear Reactors in Space Belgium in Talks to Take Over Nuclear Power Plants Grid connection Requested for Commonwealth Fusion Plant Israeli Companies Collaborate on Nuclear Fusion For Critical Water Infrastructure NRIC Selects 4 Startups for Its Nuclear Energy Launch Pad The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Nuclear Energy and the National Reactor Innovation Center (NRIC) at the…

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The states of the Nuclear non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) are meeting at the UN in New York with tensions running high between its nuclear-armed members and with two of them, the US and Russia, involved in illegal wars of aggression against non-nuclear-armed members Iran and Ukraine. The conference ended its first week having heard accusations and counter accusations of bad faith and provocative, illegal acts between some members, including Iran and the US. There have also been constructive statements from members, particularly those who are also parties to the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) calling for concrete…

If scientific facts are uncomfortable to us, well don’t worry. – they can be changed Some recent studies of adolescent heath find that depression and anxiety are becoming more common in teenagers. It’s attributed to personal factors like suffering loneliness and bullying. And I certainly don’t doubt the importance of those factors. But could it also be that the state of the world, little background situations like global heating, or imminent nuclear war, are causing some to worry about their future? There are many teenagers now who turn out to be having very different, unusual, thinking patterns. This reality is now…

Richland County Commissioner Darrell Banks emailed a GOP political consultant that he would “not be surprised if there is a cross burning in my future” shortly after voting last summer to ban wind and solar farms at a meeting packed with local residents who opposed the ban. Voters in the Ohio county will vote Tuesday on a referendum on the ban, which prohibits large new wind and solar farms in 11 of 18 of the townships located in the Ohio county. A “No” vote will overturn the ban, while a “Yes” vote will uphold the ban. Thousands of county residents…

A Houston startup aims to bring Japan’s high-temperature reactor legacy to Texas, betting a 950C HTGR can open new markets for industrial heat, hydrogen, and advanced nuclear deployment. A Houston-based nuclear technology startup is advancing a high-temperature gas-cooled reactor (HTGR) design that targets outlet temperatures of 950C (1,742F)—well beyond the range of most advanced reactor concepts under active U.S. development. ZettaJoule’s ZJ0 reactor—a very-high-temperature gas-cooled reactor derived from Japan’s High Temperature Engineering Test Reactor (HTTR) program—targets industrial processes that require high outlet temperatures, including refining, synthetic fuel production, hydrogen production, steelmaking, chemical manufacturing, desalination, and data centers, ZettaJoule Co-Founder, President,…

On this day 40 years ago, an explosion at reactor 4 at the Chornobyl nuclear power station released radioactive contamination across Europe, forcing entire communities to abandon their homes, and leaving a toxic legacy that endures to this day. The consequences did not end as the story faded from the headlines. Lives and livelihoods were lost, land remains uninhabitable, and the clean-up continues to carry enormous human and financial costs. This is not simply a commemoration of a past event, 40 years later, this is an ongoing nuclear emergency. School #2 in the city of Pripyat, picture taken in October…

California’s three investor-owned utility monopolies have a lot riding on the outcome of the state’s first open race for governor since 2018, with their soaring electric bills taking center-stage in the race, and candidates offering different rhetoric and proposals for how to lower customers’ bills.  The companies – Pacific Gas & Electric Company (PG&E), Southern California Edison, and San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) – have thus far not contributed directly to any of the Republicans or Democrats running in the state’s open multi-party primary.  But PG&E has spent nearly $10 million on a negative advertising campaign against leading Democratic…

Zap Energy, a fusion energy startup based in Everett, WA, startled the energy industry this week with an unprecedented announcement that it is doubling down on atomic energy by starting work on a 10 MW sodium cooled advanced reactor in addition to its ongoing work on a fusion energy machine. Accordiong to a report by GeekWire, the company’s approach builds on technology from the Experimental Breeder Reactor-II (EBR-II), developed and tested over decades at the Idaho National Laboratory. The strategy was later adopted by Toshiba for its 4S (Super-Safe, Small and Simple) reactor. Zap said it is now revitalizing the…

As states gather for the 2026 NPT Review Conference, there is little expectation that much will be achieved. Two consecutive review conferences have ended without agreement. The nuclear arsenals that the treaty was designed to eliminate are being expanded. And the states most loudly defending the NPT’s importance are, in many cases, the same ones failing to honour its central obligation. ICAN’s new Cornerstone Report documents exactly how this happened, and what can still be done to implement the NPT’s promise on non-proliferation and disarmament. When the NPT was negotiated, the geopolitical stakes couldn’t have been higher. Five states had…