| UK Energy Secretary Ed Miliband has signed the final investment decision for the Sizewell C nuclear power plant in Suffolk, England. The government will be the largest shareholder in the GBP38 billion (USD51 billion) project alongside EDF, Centrica, La Caisse and Amber Infrastructure. |
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| In the rapidly evolving landscape of nuclear medicine, the integration of diagnostics and therapeutics - known as theranostics - represents a groundbreaking shift in how we approach the treatment of life-limiting conditions such as cancer. Wietse Smit, research and development manager, Urenco, looks at the potential, and the challenges, ahead. |
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| The Emirates Nuclear Energy Company and Hyundai Engineering & Construction are to jointly explore international nuclear energy opportunities. The announcement came days after ENEC signed an agreement with Westinghouse to accelerate the deployment of AP1000 reactors. |
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| The bottom head of the containment vessel of unit 3 at the Taipingling nuclear power plant has been installed on the central raft foundation of the unit's nuclear island, China General Nuclear announced. |
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| Slovenské elektrárne has signed a contract with Urenco Group for the supply of enriched uranium to its Bohunice and Mochovce nuclear power plants to the mid-2030s. |
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| The UK Atomic Energy Authority has begun using two additive manufacturing - or 3D printing - machines that use complementary methods to manufacture highly specialised components for fusion machines. |
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| Fabrication of the reactor core for the Project Pele prototype mobile microreactor - the first microreactor to be built and operated in the USA - has begun at BWX Technologies' Innovation Campus in Lynchburg, Virginia. |
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| The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission has approved a series of licensing and regulatory actions that will allow fuel loading at Holtec's plant.
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| In a world first, a robotic arm has been retrofitted and operated inside an active nuclear glovebox at Sellafield in the UK, helping to remove the risk to operators and promising to make decades-old gloveboxes safer to dispose of. |
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| The energy ministers of France and Belgium have signed a declaration of intent for the two countries to deepen their cooperation on nuclear energy. The move comes after Belgium decided to reverse its nuclear phase-out policy. |
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| US-based Deep Geo Inc and South Africa-based Allweld Nuclear and Industrial have signed a memorandum of understanding to support the development of new nuclear power capacity in Africa.
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| Norwegian energy developer Ocean-Power and Danish nuclear technology company Copenhagen Atomics have signed a memorandum of understanding to jointly study the potential for producing electricity and heat in Norway using thorium-based molten salt reactors. |
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| The first of four 520-tonne steam generators has been installed in the first unit of the Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant in the UK. |
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| The Palisades on-site training department has achieved full accreditation from the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations - a prerequisite for the planned restart of the nuclear power plant by the end of this year. |
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| Cold hydrostatic testing has been completed at unit 7 of the Tianwan nuclear power plant in China's Jiangsu province, China National Nuclear Corporation has announced. The tests mark the first time the reactor systems are operated together with the auxiliary systems. |
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| Workers have begun the pre-assembly of the first tier of the internal containment building for what will be the seventh unit at the Leningrad nuclear power plant. |
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| The latest edition of the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency's Small Modular Reactor Dashboard reports growing interest around the world with 51 SMR designs involved in pre-licensing or licensing processes and 85 active discussions between SMR developers and site owners. |
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| BWX Technologies Inc announced it has installed all the equipment required for the production of Uranium Nitride TRISO fuel for advanced reactors at its Technology Centre in Lynchburg, Virginia. |
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| Oklo Inc is to collaborate with US critical digital infrastructure provider Vertiv on advanced power and thermal management solutions tailored specifically for hyperscale and co-location data centres, powered by steam and electricity from Oklo's advanced nuclear power plants. |
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The fusion industry raised USD2.64 billion in private and public funding in the 12 months to July 2025, according to the latest annual Global Fusion Industry Report from the Fusion Industry Association. Total funding for the 53 fusion companies surveyed has reached a cumulative USD9.766 billion. |
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| Japanese utility Kansai Electric Power Company plans to conduct surveys of the Mihama nuclear power plant site in Fukui Prefecture to determine if a new reactor could be build there as a replacement for unit 1, which was declared permanently shut down in 2015. |
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| The first stage of design work on a prototype molten salt reactor has been completed, Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom has said. |
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