Author: Fission Today

28 February 2026- The Trump and Netanyahu administrations have launched a massive attack on Iran, using the alleged Iranian nuclear weapons programme as a partial justification. This attack takes place despite claims that the nuclear programme was “obliterated” during the Israeli and U.S. attacks last June and amidst repeated calls from President Donald Trump for a regime change in Iran. ICAN condemns the illegal attack by two nuclear-armed states, the United States and Israel, on Iran. U.S. President Trump announced “major combat operations in Iran” and Israel indicated it was launching a pre-emptive attack on the country earlier today. In…

How will free-spending Ford pay for Ontario’s $400-billion nuclear plans? One of the central unanswered questions about the Doug Ford government’s nuclear expansion plans for Ontario has been: How they will be paid for? Estimates of the capital costs of the government’s plans, based on past projects and recent experiences in the United States and Europe, exceed $400-billion. Mark Winfield, The Globe and Mail, Feb. 24, 2026, Mark Winfield is a professor of environmental and urban change at York University and co-editor of Sustainable Energy Transitions in Canada (UBC Press 2023). One of the central unanswered questions about the Doug Ford government’s nuclear expansion plans for Ontario has…

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has proposed the first dedicated federal licensing framework for commercial fusion machines, setting out a technology‑inclusive, risk‑informed approach under its 10 CFR Part 30 byproduct material rules rather than the power‑reactor framework used for fission plants. The proposed rule seeks to place regulatory oversight of fusion‑generated radioactive material within NRC’s existing materials program, clarifying how tritium, activation products, and other fusion byproducts will be licensed and overseen as the sector moves toward commercial deployment. Published Feb. 26 in the Federal Register as “Regulatory Framework for Fusion Machines,” the proposal would revise the NRC’s existing…

Why Isn’t China a Market Leader in Export of Nuclear Reactors? In terms of building civilian nuclear reactors, China is a global leader at home but its efforts to export two PWR type reactors designs abroad has come up short. At home, China has 60 operating nuclear reactors on its grid (59GW) with another 29 under construction or planned starts (41 GW). In terms exports, China has promoted two designs, an 1,100 MW PWR, the Hualong One, and a 1,400 MW PWR, an upgraded AP1000, the CAP1400. Only three Hualong One’s have been built and all three are in Pakistan…

I realized I haven’t updated things here for a long while, and that it would be worth consolidating a few overdue news updates. First and foremost, if you want to read things from me on a more regular basis, you should be reading Doomsday Machines, which is another blog of mine, and is much more frequently updated that this one. While it is not exactly the same content or approach, you’ll find a lot of things from this blog replicated on there. Because the same person writes both of them. (I still intend to update this blog occasionally, but one…

Four years ago, on 24 February 2022, Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. For Ukrainians, this week marks the start of a fifth year of war – of loss, displacement and destruction that words can barely describe. Take this opportunity to support nuclear disarmament as part of any peace plan for Ukraine. The answer to the war in Ukraine cannot be to double down on nuclear weapons, but to take action to rule them out. Nuclear danger in the Ukraine war From the start, the war has been fought under explicit nuclear threats from Moscow. With very limited success,…

This week’s NOT the corporate nuclear-related news Some bits of good news – Planting Billions of Trees Turned Barren Desert into a Carbon Sink That Lowers CO2.    Town Enthusiastically Switches to Restorative Justice and Reoffending Almost Vanishes.   Dramatic recovery of various fish species after California’s ban on trawling TOP STORIES  Israel used weapons in Gaza that made thousands of Palestinians evaporate.  What if Nuclear Deterrence was an Obsolete Concept?  Why can’t western leaders accept that they have failed in Ukraine?  Murica: US throws pennies at massive UN debt. Climate. The Apocalyptic President.  Donald Trump has revoked the official doctrine that carbon dioxide is a danger to human health. Brace for Trump’s brave new world…

Credits: Martin Bergsma | Shutterstock, All rights reserved. The International Energy Agency calls heat pumps the ‘central technology’ for low-carbon heating. While geopolitical shocks and national decisions shape adoption patterns, for most consumers the decisive factor is the electricity to gas price ratio, a study by the German state-owned promotional bank KfW shows.  Heat pumps efficiently electrify heating, working like reverse refrigerators. A refrigerant absorbs ambient or geothermal energy, which is compressed and transferred indoors via a heat exchanger. Because they salvage thermal energy from the environment, modern heat pumps deliver three to four times more energy than the electric energy they…

The Trump administration is touting a proposed 9.2‑GW natural gas power complex near Portsmouth, Ohio, as the centerpiece of a new U.S.–Japan trade deal that officials say could steer up to $550 billion of Japanese capital into American energy and industrial projects. According to a Feb. 17 Commerce Department fact sheet and a statement by Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, the “Portsmouth Powered Land Project” would be a 9.2‑GW, $33 billion natural gas plant in the vicinity of Portsmouth, operated by Japanese conglomerate SoftBank’s U.S. affiliate, SB Energy. Billed as one of the “largest natural gas generation projects in the world,”…

Nevada gas utility Southwest Gas (SWG) has not provided sufficient information or analysis in its inaugural long-term resource plan to ensure the utility is proposing the most cost-effective options for its customers, Nevada advocates and state officials are saying. Intervenors who are critical of the resource plan include Nevada’s Bureau of Consumer Protection (BCP) and three organizations – Western Resource Advocates (WRA), Advanced Energy United (AEU), and Southwest Energy Efficiency Project (SWEEP) – collectively the “Clean Energy Advocates” (CEA).  SWG filed its inaugural Triennial Resource Plan application and testimony at the PUCN in September 2025. Commonly referred to as an…