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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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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U.S. News and World Report has again placed MIT’s graduate program in engineering at the top of its annual rankings, released today. The Institute has held the No. 1 spot since 1990, when the magazine first ranked such programs.The MIT Sloan School of Management also placed highly, occupying the No. 6 spot for the best graduate business programs.Among individual engineering disciplines, MIT placed first in six areas: aerospace/aeronautical/astronautical engineering, chemical engineering, computer engineering (tied with the University of California at Berkeley), electrical/electronic/communications engineering (tied with Stanford University and Berkeley), materials engineering, and mechanical engineering. It placed second in nuclear engineering.In the…

Trump says Tuesday deadline for Iran to accept ceasefire ‘final, won’t change’; Israel takes out experienced IRGC intel chief. SOTT Signs Of The Times, Tyler Durden, ZeroHedge, Mon, 06 Apr 2026 Summary: A Sunday night Axios report on a US-proposed 45-day ceasefire has by Monday morning been rejected by Iran, which later on Monday issued a 10-point letter via Pakistan. Israel strikes large petrochemical plant at South Pars, which is responsible for half of the country’s petrochemical production. Trump reaffirms Tuesday deadline before vital infrastructure gets attacked as ‘final’, calls Americans opposed to Iran war ‘foolish’ – saying it’s all about Tehran not getting a nuke.…

Across the U.S., more than 60 advanced reactor developers are innovating with billions of dollars in public and private capital to meet rapidly growing electricity demand. But innovation alone does not deliver power. If nuclear power is to be an essential source for exploding power demands across the nation, we must make a strategic choice: continue funding a broad field of demonstrations, or prioritize a smaller set of technologies capable of near-term deployment at scale to provide the hundreds of gigawatts needed by 2030. COMMENTARY The answer is clear. Federal policy—particularly through the Department of War (DOW) and the Department…