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Ukraine's nuclear plant has lost power supply: IAEA
Aug 29, 2026 (AFP)
The plant, which needs power to keep its six non-operating reactors cool, has only a ten-day diesel supply on site, the International Atomic Energy Agency said ...
Swiss nuclear plant fully back online after heatwaves
Aug 28, 2026 (AFP)
Axpo said the second reactor at the Beznau plant in northern Switzerland, Europe's oldest nuclear power plant still in operation, went back online Thursday. The...
US military spending $2.2 bn to build small nuclear reactors
Aug 26, 2026 (AFP)
The Army aims to get the first one up and running by September 2028, a target set by President Donald Trump in a May 2025 executive order aimed at accelerating ...
DOE and NRIC Name First Companies Selected for Nuclear Energy Launch Pad Program
Apr 29, 2026 (SPX)
Four companies were competitively chosen from the initial pool of applicants previously submitted under DOE's Reactor Pilot Program and Fuel Line Pilot Program....
DOME test bed opens at Idaho lab to host privately built advanced reactors
Apr 17, 2026 (SPX)
DOME is described as the world's first test bed purpose-built to host and demonstrate microreactors developed by private companies, giving industry partners acc...
Safety panel flags seismic risks at Nevada nuclear weapons lab
Apr 17, 2026 (SPX)
Members of the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board told the 2026 Seismological Society of America Annual Meeting that extensive faulting and associated rock...
Ion beam method to speed nuclear core material qualification
Mar 30, 2026 (SPX)
Many developers of advanced nuclear fission and proposed fusion systems are looking to new reactor designs to supply emissions free electricity and power energy...
US opposes UN nuclear watchdog resolution on Ukraine power grid strikes
Mar 05, 2026 (AFP)
Russia, which invaded Ukraine four years ago, has launched deadly strikes on its neighbour's power grid, repeatedly cutting supply to nuclear power plants. The ...
Japan eyes remote Pacific island for nuclear waste
Mar 04, 2026 (AFP)
Nuclear power is making a comeback worldwide, but finding permanent storage sites for spent fuel -- which can be hazardous for many thousands of years -- is a h...
GENUSA to supply GNF2 reload fuel for Vattenfall Forsmark plant
Feb 23, 2026 (SPX)
GENUSA is jointly owned by Global Nuclear Fuel, a GE Vernova-led alliance with Hitachi, and the Spanish nuclear fuel company ENUSA. The new Forsmark contract bu...
INL and NVIDIA align AI platform to speed advanced nuclear rollout
Feb 23, 2026 (SPX)
The work sits under the Genesis Mission, a national initiative to build an integrated scientific and computing platform to tackle high impact challenges in ener...
INL launches molten salt examination hub for next gen reactors
Feb 23, 2026 (SPX)
The Molten Salt Thermophysical Examination Capability, or MSTEC, is a shielded argon glove box designed to handle irradiated and nonirradiated actinide material...
France bets on nuclear power to phase out fossil fuels
Feb 12, 2026 (AFP)
France wants to phase out fossil fuels by 2050, and is hoping consumers will switch from burning oil and gas to consuming more low-carbon electricity in order t...
Japan restarts world's biggest nuclear plant again
Feb 09, 2026 (AFP)
A problem with a monitoring alarm in January forced the suspension of its first restart since the 2011 Fukushima disaster. The Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant in the N...
Japan to restart world's biggest nuclear plant
Feb 06, 2026 (AFP)
Takeyuki Inagaki, the head of the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant run by Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO), told a press conference Friday that they planned "to start up th...
Hungary starts long-delayed nuclear plant expansion
Feb 05, 2026 (AFP)
Hungary struck an agreement with Russia in 2014 involving a 10 billion euro ($11 billion) loan deal to build two reactors at the Paks plant south of Budapest. T...
Japan suspends restart of world's biggest nuclear plant
Jan 22, 2026 (AFP)
The Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant in Niigata province had been closed since the 2011 Fukushima disaster, but operations to relaunch it had begun on Wednesday after i...
Denmark mulls small nuclear reactors, lifting of 1985 nuke ban
Jan 22, 2026 (AFP)
A framework for investigating the "potentials and risks" of new nuclear technologies and the lifting of the moratorium was now in place, the ministry said in a ...
Japan restarts world's biggest nuclear plant
Jan 21, 2026 (AFP)
The plant was "started at 19:02" (1002 GMT), Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) spokesman Tatsuya Matoba told AFP of the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant in Niigata p...
Coal plant conversion seen boosting China nuclear share to 22 percent by 2060
Jan 19, 2026 (SPX)
The research team upgraded a national power system capacity expansion and operation model with provincial level detail to test how coal to nuclear conversion mi...
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