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Air Force Selects Three Microreactors for Base Power NRC Proposes a New Licensing Framework for Microreactors TerraPower Breaks Ground in Wyoming for 345 MW Advanced Reactor Rolls-Royce and Czech CEZ Ink Deal for Nuclear Reactors At Temelín Zeno Power Completes Final Design Review for Space Nuclear Battery Nuclear Fuel Validation Planned by Oklo, LANL and NVIDIA DOE Seeks to Partner with Private Sector for Spent Fuel Recycling Air Force Selects Three Microreactors for Base Power The Department of the Air Force, in conjunction with the Defense Innovation Unit, has selected three companies to potentially develop and operate a microreactor on…

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This is a template that you can adjust, print and bring to your local bank. Or you can cut and paste it into the contact section of your banking app. Find out what banks and other financial institutions have money tied up with the nuclear weapons industry here.  I am writing to you as a concerned customer of your bank, and a concerned citizen.  The continued existence of more than 12,000 nuclear weapons is an affront to humanity and undermines every nation’s security. Any use of these ultimate weapons of mass destruction would have catastrophic, long-term humanitarian and environmental consequences.…

Remembering Chornobyl April 19, 2026  by beyondnuclearinternational, 40 years on we are still asking the wrong questions and getting a lot of wrong answers, writes Linda Pentz Gunter Probably the most heinous crime, other than the avoidable accident itself and its immediate coverup, is the way that the Chornobyl (Ukrainian equivalent spelling) nuclear power disaster in Ukraine, 40 years old this week, has been used to downplay and normalize the long-lasting health impacts caused by that April 26, 1986 explosion. Still today, the myth is repeated that “no one died” — meaning no one in the public. Instead, we are told…

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The Air Force’s ANPI program has tapped Radiant, Antares, and Westinghouse to develop first‑of‑a‑kind nuclear microreactors at Buckley, Malmstrom, and Joint Base San Antonio, with initial deployments targeted as early as 2028. The Department of the Air Force (DAF) has named three microreactor vendors—Radiant Industries, Westinghouse Government Services, and Antares Nuclear—to develop and operate contractor-owned units at Buckley Space Force Base, Malmstrom Air Force Base, and Joint Base San Antonio under its Advanced Nuclear Power for Installations (ANPI) program. While the program envisions having at least one advanced nuclear reactor operating on a service installation by 2030, at least two…

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…