Inertia founders Mike Dunne, Jeff Lawson and Annie Kritcher (Credit: Inertia Enterprises) California-based fusion start-up Inertia Enterprises has announced a new $450m investment in a Series A ...

Toronto-based Thorium Atomics has advanced its US licensing pathway by initiating pre-application regulatory engagement with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) for its Tesseract TGR advanced ...

The executive meeting of China’s State Council has approved Phase I of the Xuwei nuclear power project in Jiangsu province developed by China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC), along with four other ...

Critically low water levels on the Danube River in Romania (Credit: Reuters via Facebook) At least 15 nuclear reactors have been temporarily shut down or had their power output curtailed across Europe ...

At Russia’s Atommash plant (part of Rosatom’s Mechanical Engineering Division) in the Rostov region, a new robot for ultrasonic testing (USC) of the quality of welded joints had begun operation. The ...

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) $271m to help support Diablo Canyon Power Plant’s extended operations. Diablo Canyon Power Plant provides nearly 10% of ...

The Arabelle turbine platform has been developed for nuclear half speed applications and can be deployed with different reactor types and for different cooling water temperatures. Some typical PWR ...

Ontario-based Nuclea Energy has signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Miami-headquartered New Mining Co, a provider of high-density digital infrastructure and computing hosting ...

Rapid progress is being made at Russia’s Leningrad NPP. The first tier of the internal containment for unit 8 (also known as Leningrad-II unit 4) has been installed almost a month ahead of schedule.

A US multi-organisation team led by Morgan State University, in collaboration with aerospace and defence technology company Northrop Grumman, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), and nuclear ...

Holtec International’s plans to restart the Palisades NPP in Covert Township, Michigan, by the end of 2025 have now been pushed back to early 2026. Palisades will be the first US NPP to restart ...

As legacy equipment ages, spare parts grow scarce, manufacturers discontinue product lines, and specialised knowledge of vintage systems retires (Source: Shutterstock) The global debate about nuclear ...