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Rolls-Royce 1st Round of Financing to Develop 470 MWe PWR
Source: Neutron BytesUK / Rolls-Royce ‘Has Secured Investment’ For World’s First SMR Production Line House Appropriations Sets Zero Funding for Versatile Test Reactor Idaho Lab Study of Microreactors…
UK Picks HTGR Technology for Pilot SMR Program. Who’s Design will It Use?
Source: Neutron BytesUK Picks HTGR for Pilot SMR Program Japan’s HTTR Restarts And Could Be Used To Demonstrate Green Hydrogen Production Russia Plans More Floating Nuclear Power Plants…
UK Gov’t Said Ready to Cut China Out of its Nuclear Plans
Source: Neutron BytesUK Gov’t Reported to Planning Break with China Over Nuclear Energy Investments China ‘Unveils Design’ For Next-Generation Commercial Molten Salt Reactor Nuclear Phase-out Plan a Key…
ESG Reporting as a Means to Leverage Interest by Investors in Next Generation LWR and Advanced Nuclear Reactors
Source: Neutron BytesAn opportunity exists for the global nuclear energy industry to attract investment capital and/or to lower the cost of capital, by focusing on investors who are…
China Breaks Ground for 1st Small Modular Reactor
Topics: New ReactorsSource: Neutron BytesChina Breaks Ground for its 1st Small Modular Reactor NuScale Downsizes Idaho Plant from 12 to 6 Units Kairos $100 Million Molten Salt Nuclear Reactor Project…
Eskom Seeks Sites for 2500 MWe Nuclear to Be Built in 2030s
Source: Neutron BytesNew Nuclear Power Sites Planned for South Africa Cameco, GE Hitachi and Global Nuclear Fuel to Collaborate on BWRX-300 SMR DOE and GE Hitachi Team Up…
NRC License Sought for USNC HTGR at University of Illinois
Source: Neutron BytesUltra Safe Nuclear to Build FOAK HTGR at U. Illinois Ultra Safe Makes Progress in Canada NuScale Power Secures Investment from South Korea’s GS Energy DOE…
Poland Seeks SMRs for Process Heat Applications
Source: Neutron BytesPoland’s PKN Orlen Partners with Synthos to Build SMRs for Process Heat ant Electricity Generation Poland / Westinghouse And Bechtel To Begin Study For First Nuclear…
MIT Public/Private Partnership Expands Effort to Develop a 10MWe ‘Plug-and-Play’ Nuclear Battery
Source: Neutron BytesMIT Public/Private Partnership Expands Effort to Develop a 10 MWe ‘Plug-and-Play’ Nuclear Battery Q&A On Nuclear Batteries – A Conversation with Jacopo Buongiorno, Professor of Nuclear…
Nuclear Thermal Propulsion is Key Enabling Technology for DARPA Effort
Source: Neutron BytesDARPA project for nuclear thermal propulsion adds a second track for system integration of two previously awarded contracts NAS ~ For Humans to Reach Mars Advances…
Fusion Emerges as a Key Factor in UK’s Energy Future
Source: Neutron BytesGeneral Fusion to Break Ground for a Pilot Plant in the UK in Three Years UKAEA Posts List of 15 Candidate Sites for Fusion Reactors IAEA’s…
Once More Time – Tar Sands Firms Pitched for SMRs
Source: Neutron BytesLatest Efforts to Bring SMRs to Alberta’s Tar Sands Hits Investor Headwinds South Korea Seeks Global Role in Launch of Nuclear Powered Cargo Ships Russia Starts…
New Lamps for Old: TerraPower Plans an Advanced Reactor to Replace a Wyoming Coal Plant
Topics: New ReactorsSource: Neutron BytesOn June 2, 2021, TerraPower, Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon and PacifiCorp announced efforts to build and operate a Natrium reactor demonstration project at a former coal…
NuScale Scores $20M Investment from Japan’s IHI Corp
Source: Neutron BytesNuScale Gets New Equity Investment of $20M from Japanese Firm UK Nuclear Firm Announces HTGR Collaboration With Japan Moltex SMR Clears First Phase of CNSC VDR…
China’s CFR-600 Draws Concerns as a Breeder Reactor
Source: Neutron BytesA 600 MW fast reactor, the CFR600, is expected to be complete by 2023. The CFR-600 is a sodium-cooled pool-type fast-neutron nuclear reactor under construction in…
Global First Submits 15 MWt SMR for License from CNSC
Source: Neutron BytesGlobal First Small Modular Reactor Project Achieves Licensing Milestone UK SMR / Rolls-Royce Consortium Increases Plant’s Power, Plans To Build Up To 10 By 2035 Idaho…
NuScale Launches Effort to Deploy Floating SMRs
Source: Neutron BytesNuScale Teams with Canadian Firm to Deploy its SMRs via Floating Platforms Danish Firm Plans Floating SMR for Asian Customers South Korea Firms to Manufacture Floating…
TVA to Collaborate with Kairos Power on 140 MWe SMR
Source: Neutron BytesTVA to Collaborate with Kairos Power on Development of a 140 MWe Advanced SMR Russia Approvs’ $2.4 Billion Project To Use Five Floating Reactors For Remote…
Katy Huff to DOE as Acting @DOE_NE1 and permanent NE2
Source: Neutron BytesKathryn Huff, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy Dr. Kathryn D. Huff was most recently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Nuclear, Plasma, and…
SMRs Get Wind in their Sails from 3 Seas Initiative
Source: Neutron BytesU.S. State Dept. Commits $5.3M to Promote SMRs Nuclear Energy Developments in 3 Seas Countries – State by State US State Department Offers Support for SMRs…