DARPA wants to bypass the thermal middleman in nuclear power systems(ans.org)

171 points by bilsbie 2 years ago | 112 comments

Chinese pebble-bed nuclear reactor passes "meltdown" test(ans.org)

132 points by bilekas 1 year ago | 60 comments

US government struggles to rehire nuclear safety staff it laid off days ago(bbc.com)

280 points by niuzeta 1 year ago | 392 comments

NRC issues first U.S. construction permit for a BWRX-300 small modular reactor(gevernova.com)

110 points by papa-whisky 1 month ago | 75 comments

GE Vernova press release announcing the NRC's first U.S. construction permit for a BWRX-300 small modular reactor at TVA's Clinch River site.

TVA submits first US BWRX-300 construction application(world-nuclear-news.org)

11 points by mpweiher 1 year ago | 5 comments

U.S. reenters the nuclear fuel game(spectrum.ieee.org)

338 points by beefman 3 years ago | 369 comments

IEEE Spectrum news article on Centrus Energy delivering the first U.S.-produced batch of HALEU uranium fuel needed for advanced nuclear reactors.

First new U.S. nuclear reactor since 2016 is now in operation(eia.gov)

949 points by ano-ther 2 years ago | 998 comments

U.S. EIA Today in Energy article reporting that Vogtle Unit 3, the first new U.S. nuclear reactor since 2016, has entered commercial operation.

Canada plans 'nuclear renaissance' with up to 10 reactors built by 2040(cbc.ca)

518 points by geox 4 months ago | 358 comments

CBC News article on Canada's federal nuclear strategy planning up to 10 new reactors by 2040, potentially costing over $100 billion.

Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants(dpa-international.com)

828 points by mpweiher 6 months ago | 844 comments

A dpa International news report that Belgium is halting the decommissioning of its nuclear power plants.

Foreign hackers breached a US nuclear weapons plant via SharePoint flaws(csoonline.com)

394 points by zdw 1 year ago | 317 comments

CSO Online news analysis reporting that foreign hackers breached the NNSA's Kansas City nuclear weapons plant by exploiting Microsoft SharePoint vulnerabilities.

EU court rules nuclear energy is clean energy(weplanet.org)

942 points by mpweiher 1 year ago | 948 comments

A WePlanet blog post reporting that an EU court ruled nuclear energy counts as clean energy.

Solar surpasses nuclear power globally for first time(pv-magazine.com)

624 points by xbmcuser 27 days ago | 390 comments

pv magazine article reporting that global solar generation surpassed nuclear for the first time in 2025, according to the World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2026.