US start-up Deployable Energy’s demonstration reactor, Unity, has achieved a zero-power fuelled criticality demonstration at Idaho National Laboratory (INL). It is the third Department of Energy (DOE) ...

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has released the first publicly available interactive database detailing the world’s used (spent) nuclear fuel (SNF), both stored and reprocessed by ...

US-based fusion company Helion Energy has raised $465m in a Series G funding round. The round values the Washington-based nuclear fusion startup at a $15.5bn post-money valuation, nearly tripling its ...

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected five companies to enter advanced talks over potentially using its Cold War-era plutonium as a nuclear reactor fuel. DOE named these as Oklo, Exodys ...

Work has begun to concrete the foundation of the turbine and generator of the BREST-OD-300 reactor under construction at the Siberian Chemical Combine (SKhK – Sibirskovo Khimicheskovo Kombinata) in ...

Chicago-based Clean Core Thorium Energy (CCTE) has confirmed that its patented ANEEL (Advanced Nuclear Energy for Enriched Life) fuel successfully reached a burnup of over 60 GWd/MTU (gigawatt-days ...

Rosatom Automated Control Systems (RASU – Rosatom Avtomatizirovannie Systemi Upravleniya) has completed the delivery of all the automated process control systems (ASUTP – (Avtomatizirobannikh System ...

Urenco’s Capenhurst site in the UK has enriched uranium above 5% U-235, during its first trial run of this new service following positive feedback from a Regulatory Readiness Review and subsequent ...

Site preparation for the Oklo Aurora powerhouse project at Idaho National Laboratory (Credit: Oklo) US-based Oklo has signed a US Department of Energy (DOE) Other Transaction Agreement (OTA) to ...

Switzerland’s Leibstadt nuclear power plant, which began operating in 1984 (Credit: Wikimedia Commons) Switzerland’s Council of States (the upper house of parliament) has approved the government’s ...

Mikhail Chudakov, Deputy Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (Credit: IAEA) Appointed as the Deputy Director General and Head of the Department of Nuclear Energy at the ...

A new study by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Deuterium–Tritium Toroidal Magnetic Confinement Facilities (IAEA-TECDOC-2116), looks at decommissioning and waste management with respect ...