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Report: Key Bottlenecks Facing New Reactor Builds Oklo’s Atomic Alchemy Granted NRC License for Isotope Production TerraPower Isotopes Announces cGMP Manufacturing Facility General Matter to Export American Nuclear Fuel to Japan Aalo Completes Assembly of Micro Test Reactor at INL Key Contracts Awarded in UK Fusion Program EU €330 Million in Funding for Fusion Energy, Nuclear Medicine Realta Fusion and Kyoto Fusioneering Forge Strategic Partnership Helical Fusion Announces Construction Start in Japan DOE Offers $230M for National Science Challenges Report: Key Bottlenecks Face New Reactor Builds A new report from the Nuclear Scaling Initiative (NSI), Landscape of U.S. Domestic Advanced…

Three North Carolina Democratic state House members who crossed the aisle to cast key votes to override Gov. Josh Stein’s veto of a controversial Duke Energy-backed utility bill were rejected by voters in their own party’s primaries this month — after receiving the maximum $10,000 campaign contributions from the utility. In 2025, state Reps. Carla Cunningham, Nasif Majeed, and Shelly Willingham, all Democrats, joined Republicans to override Democratic Gov. Josh Stein’s veto of Senate Bill 266, a sweeping energy policy measure that is likely to raise electricity costs for residential customers while reducing financial risk for Duke Energy. S. 266…

One of the sleeper news items of last week was that the Department of Energy officially vacated the Atomic Energy Commission decision that stripped J. Robert Oppenheimer of his security clearance in 1954. It did come as a surprise to me. I knew that there was a campaign to overturn Oppenheimer’s clearance loss — I had been asked to give representatives from the American Institute of Physics a background talk about it, in order to help them determine whether to take a stance on it — and also knew that there had been previous, unsuccessful efforts in this respect. “Beyond…

“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…