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Nuclear Fusion

UK and US Launch $3M Fusion Energy Materials Project

From left: David Bowden, Materials for Fusion Lead at UKAEA, Yutai Kato, Prof Steve Zinkle, ORNL and University of Tennessee, and Dr Amanda Quadling. Photo: UKA…

Nuclear Fusion

SPARC Fusion Power Demo Construction Is Underway Outside of Boston

CFS CEO Bob Mumgaard showing Sen. Warren (left) and Secretary Granholm (center) around the SPARC facility. (Photo: CFS)Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) hosted …

Nuclear Fusion

Commonwealth Fusion Systems Opens New Development Campus

Image: Commonwealth Fusion SystemsCambridge, Massachusetts-based Commonwealth Fusion Systems’ new campus is expected to accelerate its path to commercial …

Nuclear Reactor

Holtec Supplies Key Component for US Fusion Reactor

Holtec International has completed the fabrication and delivery of the Centre Stack Casing (CSC) for the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory's (PPPL's) …

Nuclear Technology

UK Establishes New Body to Deliver Its Fusion Programme

UK Science Minister George Freeman has announced the establishment of a new organisation to deliver the UK’s fusion programme. UK Industrial Fusion Soluti…

Energy Security

Centrus Competes Construction, Initial Testing of Haleu Demonstration Cascade

Marking a major milestone, Centrus Energy—a firm under contract with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to demonstrate production of high-assay low-enriched u…

Nuclear Fusion

New Body to Deliver UK’s Fusion Ambitions

STEP building cutaway. Image: UKAEAThe UK government has announced UK Industrial Fusion Solutions as the new body to deliver the country’s fusion programm…

Nuclear Reactor

Unit 3 of Slovakia’s Mochovce Nuclear Plant Connected to the Grid

Slovakia’s power utility Slovenské elektrárne (SE) has connected to the grid the 440 MW Unit 3 of the Mochovce nuclear power plant. The 1.9 …

Nuclear Reactor

Tritium: Ultra-Rare Fusion Fuel We Can’t Make Nearly Enough Of

After the National Ignition Facility in California's first successful scientific breakeven through nuclear fusion, mankind is all the more serious about rea…

Energy Technology

Containment Building Completed at Zhangzhou 1

Construction has been completed of the outer dome of the containment building of unit 1 of the Zhangzhou nuclear power plant in China's Fujian province, Chi…

Nuclear waste

US Approval for Metal Storage Cask

A metal cask for the storage of used nuclear fuel, jointly developed by Doosan Enerbility of South Korea and NAC International of the USA, has received design c…

Nuclear Fusion

DOE Announces New Funding for Public-Private Partnerships to Advance Fusion Energy

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced $2.3 million in funding for 10 projects that will pair private industry with DOE's National Laboratories t…

Nuclear Technology

IAEA Launches Research Reactor HR Modelling Tool

A new training tool from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)provides modelling to develop the skilled workforce needed for new research reactor progra…

Nuclear Reactor

Chinese Tokamak Achieves Super I-Mode

A new mode of improved plasma confinement has been demonstrated at the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST), the Hefei Institutes of Physical Sc…

Nuclear Technology

Further Cost Refinements Announced for First Us SMR Plant

The approval of a new budgetary plan and an updated agreement on cost reimbursements for the USA's first power plant based on NuScale's small modular re…