Author: Fission Today

“Any attack near a nuclear facility is playing roulette with civilian lives. Nuclear risks are not theoretical — they are immediate and human. The US, Israel and Iran must stop all military action and return to the diplomatic path”, ICAN’s Melissa Parke says. On 21 March 2026, Israel and the US bombed Iran’s Nantaz nuclear installation used for enrichment of uranium. In retaliation, Iran attacked the towns of Arad and Dimona with ballistic missiles – the latter is also the home of Israel’s Shimon Peres Negev Nuclear Research Centre. It’s the first time Iranian missiles have penetrated Israeli air defences…

Recent innovation literature has established that three technological characteristics—unit size, design complexity and need for customization—are key determinants of technology-specific ERs26,31,32,33. Technologies of larger unit sizes have been shown to exhibit slower learning32, with ERs significantly reducing for every order of magnitude increase in unit size33. In addition, Malhotra and Schmidt31 developed a technology typology that classified technologies on the basis of their design complexity and need for customization (Fig. 3b,c). Design complexity refers to the number of components in a technology and the extent to which they are interdependent31. Need for customization describes the extent to which a technology…

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Fortnight to 21 March in nuclear-related (non-corporate) news Some bits of good news –  Nigeria unlocks $552 million for basic education.     The Iran war is turning energy security into an electrification story  Canada’s Supreme Court has opened Quebec’s daycare system to refugee claimants.  Big cities breathed a little easier. TOP STORIES. Principled: Trump-appointed counterterrorism director Joe Kent resignsin protest over US war with Iran. Trump hints U.S. will turn to Cuba after Iran: ‘Just a question of time’ –  Israel planned this war on Iran for 40 years- everything else is a smoke screen.  In US/Israeli war on Iran, all roads point to rise in global nuclear weapons. .Small modular reactors – smaller regulation?  Oxfam responds to mass…

The Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources convened March 19 for a full committee hearing to examine the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) implementation of President Trump’s May 2025 nuclear energy executive orders. Three witnesses—DOE Assistant Secretary Theodore Garrish, Kairos Power CEO Dr. Michael Laufer, and Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Director Dr. John C. Wagner—testified, painting a picture of an American nuclear sector moving with urgency not seen in decades, while flagging the supply chain vulnerabilities, regulatory ambiguities, and workforce gaps that could slow the momentum. Here are the key takeaways from their testimony. 1. The 400-GW Target Is Driving…

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Oklo & Centrus Ink Joint Venture for Nuclear Fuel Services in Ohio Centrus Partners with Palantir to Use AI in Uranium Enrichment Framatome and NuScale Power Ink Nuclear Fuel Delivery Contract DOE Focuses Funding on Uprates of Existing U.S. Reactors DOE Slow Walks Talks About 10 AP1000s Amid Offers from Rivals DOE Approves Safety Documents for MARVEL Microreactor Initial Criticality Radiant Receives DOE approval of Preliminary Document Safety Analysis EU’s Von der Leyen Has a Plan for Nuclear Energy EU Has a Nine-Point Plan For Deployment of SMRs French SMR Start Ups Secure $210 Million Oklo & Centrus Ink Joint…

When I learned several months ago that Daniel Ellsberg had pancreatic cancer, and was opting not to treat it, I was not quite sure what I ought to do. I consider it a great honor that I got to spend several days with Ellsberg, a few years back, and was periodically in touch with him since then. I’d like to think he was something of a friend, though I never knew him deeply or for that long of a time. After thinking on it for several days, and feeling conflicted, and talking about it with a friend whose life experience…

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In September 2025, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan signed a Strategic Mutual Defence Agreement. The text does not mention nuclear weapons – but the way it has been presented raises serious concerns about a de facto Pakistani nuclear umbrella and a new form of outsourced deterrence. On 17 September 2025, Saudi Arabia – a member of the Nuclear non-Proliferation Treaty – and nuclear-armed Pakistan signed a Strategic Mutual Defence Agreement. The pact commits both states to treat any attack on one as an attack on both, formalising a long-standing security partnership and signalling a shift in Gulf states’ security away from…