While major breakthroughs put the realisation of nuclear fusion nearer than ever, a major challenge to developing the technology as a commercial reality remains plasma control in magnetic confinement ...

US-based fusion start-up Pacific Fusion says it has raised $900m in a Series A funding round led by General Catalyst “from the best syndicate we could ask for”. Other participants included ...

Fission Forward is a conceptual design for a nuclear-powered LNG bulk carrier designed by ABS and HEC (Source: ABS) Nuclear power has the potential to make a transformational impact on carbon ...

The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has approved Framatome’s Advanced Fuel Management (AFM) programme at its facility in Richland in Washington state. The programme focuses on developing ...

South Africa’s Electricity & Energy Minister Dr Kgosientsho Ramokgopa has announced a series of developments in the country’s nuclear energy programme South African Electricity & Energy Minister Dr ...

Belgium’s PanTera has broken ground for its Actinium Production Centre (APC), a state-of-the-art facility intended to play a key role in the global supply of actinium-225 (Ac-225), an isotope for ...

BWXT’s Centrifuge Manufacturing Development Facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee (Credit: BWXT) US-based BWX Technologies (BWXT) has launched its Centrifuge Manufacturing Development Facility (CMDF) in ...

Running an in-house designed molten salt pump continuously for two years is a major technical milestone for Copenhagen Atomics (Source: Copenhagen Atomics) Widely regarded as one of the more promising ...

Expenditures in uranium exploration and mine development have increased significantly in recent years, according to a new joint report from the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) and the International ...

Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) has accused Chubu Electric Power Co of manipulating data following a regulatory investigation into its fraudulent earthquake risk data relating to the ...

Experts from the American company Sargent & Lundy visited Yerevan as part of the US State Department’s Fundamental Infrastructure for the Responsible Use of Small Modular Reactor Technology (FIRST) ...

Nuvia, a subsidiary of France-based Vinci Construction, has been awarded a contract by Swedish energy company Vattenfall to dismantle units 1&2 of Sweden’s Ringhals NPP. Nuvia will be responsible for ...