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UK & Rolls Royce Sign a Deal for Three Reactors At Wylfa X-energy Announces Initial Public Offering First American Nuclear Submits Regulatory Engagement Plan to NRC Rising Oil Prices Push Japan to Focus on Nuclear Energy Sweden Proposes Majority State Ownership In Videberg Nuclear Project Inertia Fusion Signs Partnership with LLNL UK & Rolls Royce Sign a Deal for Three SMRs at Wylfa Work will start immediately on the delivery of three Rolls-Royce 470 MW small modular reactors at Wylfa. (NucNet contributed to this report) Rolls-Royce SMR and UK government body Great British Energy-Nuclear (GBE-N) have signed a contract that…

Investor-owned electric and gas utilities paid their CEOs $626 million in 2025, an Energy and Policy Institute analysis of annual corporate filings found. From 2017 to 2025, utilities paid their CEOs more than $5.2 billion. Top 10 earners received more than $220 million as customers fell behind Ohio-based American Electric Power (AEP) compensated CEO Bill Fehrman $36.6 million in 2025, making him the highest paid utility CEO of the year by a wide margin. It would take the average worker in AEP’s home state of Ohio 550 years to earn what Fehrman made last year, according to data from the…

Government officials representing 20 nuclear-weapon-free nations in Asia and the Pacific met in Jakarta, the Indonesian capital, to discuss the urgent need to eliminate nuclear weapons. In a geopolitical climate characterised by increased rivalries and insecurities, the risk of the use of nuclear weapons appears to be growing, and any such use would have catastrophic, far-reaching consequences, the co-organisers warned. The one-day Asia-Pacific Regional Conference on the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and Security Concerns related to Nuclear Weapons was held on 17 April in Jakarta, Indonesia. The event was funded by Austria and co-hosted with Indonesia, the…

The new nuclear weapons are so much cheaper – they’re the enemy’s nuclear sites! Noel Wauchope, 20 April 26, Yes, ain’t it grand! We, the God-fearing, God-loving West and Israel, don’t really need any longer to put our $billions of tax-payer money into those horribly expensive nuclear missiles, bombs, submarines. Good old new technology is proving us with much cheaper little drones The beauty of it all is that our enemies, those bad people in Iran, Russia, China, have got readymade nuclear sites just sitting there, waiting to be gloriously exploded by our drones. If some sites, like nuclear reactors with…

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In the global race toward decarbonization, South America stands as both a beacon of potential and a cautionary tale. Brazil, Argentina and Chile, three nations often heralded as leaders in renewable energy, are now confronting a paradox: can an energy transition built on extractivism truly be sustainable? As the demand for “green” minerals such as lithium intensifies, the region’s ecosystems and communities are paying an increasingly visible price. While the global powers demand minerals, the South is barely able to support its most vulnerable populations. Are we witnessing a genuine transformation, or merely a rebranding of old extractive models under…

After decades of relatively flat electricity demand, the U.S. power sector is suddenly racing to keep up—and rural electric cooperatives, which serve 42 million people across 54% of the nation’s land mass, are feeling the squeeze as acutely as anyone. As a guest on The POWER Podcast, Jim Matheson, CEO of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA), laid out how roughly 900 co-ops in 48 states are responding to surging data center demand, supply chain pressures, and a shifting regulatory landscape. The Co-op Model Is Built Around the Consumer Matheson emphasized that co-ops operate on a fundamentally different business…

Federal energy regulators voted yesterday to keep in place accounting rules that allow monopoly utilities to charge customers for trade association activities, including political advocacy. The decision rejects calls to reform accounting rules and protect customers from footing the bill for these expenses.  The move comes as state regulators and lawmakers across the country have increasingly acted to block these costs from state-overseen retail rates – saving customers millions of dollars. Federal regulators could have done the same for federal wholesale transmission rates. Instead, they chose to maintain the status quo, allowing utilities to continue passing these expenses to customers.…

The American Physical Society (APS) recently honored two MIT faculty members — professors Yoel Fink PhD ’00 and Mehran Kardar PhD ’83 — as well as six alumni with prizes and awards for their contributions to physics and academic leadership.In addition, several MIT faculty members — Professor Jorn Dunkel, Professor Yen-Jie Lee PhD ’11, Associate Professor Mingda Li PhD ’15, and Associate Professor Julien Tailleur — as well as 12 additional alumni were named APS Fellows.Yoel Fink PhD ’00, the Danae and Vasilis (1961) Salapatas Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, received the Andrei Sakharov Prize “for defending the…

Harnessing Fusion for Lifesaving Medicine: The Journey of Mo-99 SHINE Set for $263 Million DOE Loan for Its Fusion Technology Avalanche Energy Awarded $5.2M DARPA Contract for Fusion Tech ARPA-E Announces $135 Million for Fusion Technology Program New UK Strategy for Nuclear Fusion Adds $266 Million to $2.5 billion Fusion Strategy Harnessing Fusion for Lifesaving Medicine: The Journey of Mo-99 Shine Technologies Fusion System will produce Molybdenum-99 (Mo-99), the parent isotope of the most widely used diagnostic tool in nuclear medicine. Harnessing Fusion for Lifesaving Medicine: The Journey of Mo-99 While nuclear fusion is often discussed as a future source…