Reactors

United States

Trump Administration Plans Nuclear Cooperation Deal With Saudi Arabia

The Trump administration plans to announce on July 22 that it has reached a broad nuclear cooperation agreement with Saudi Arabia, U.S. officials said, a deal t…

United States

Constellation Technology Ventures Invests in Blue Energy to Advance Small Modular Nuclear Deployment

July 16, 2026 — Blue Energy, a developer of financeable, prefabricated nuclear power plants, announced a strategic equity investment from Constellation Technol…

United Kingdom

Polish small nuclear plant developer SGE targets £35 billion fleet in Britain

Poland-based SGE ​plans to build a fleet of 14 small nuclear reactors at a ‌total cost of £35 billion ($46.5 billion), it said on July 2, targeting …

United States

Commonwealth Fusion Joins UK Program to Demonstrate Fusion Fuel Production

Commonwealth Fusion Systems, a U.S.-based company working to generate electricity by replicating the process that powers stars, said on July 1 that it is joinin…

Canada

Canada sets out plan for up to 10 new nuclear reactors

Canada unveiled a strategy on June 22 ​to accelerate the development of ‌nuclear power, setting out a goal of building up to 10 ​new large-scale reactors…

Japan

Steam leak prompts shutdown of nuclear reactor in central Japan

A nuclear power plant in Japan’s central Fukui Prefecture temporarily shut down one of its reactors on Friday morning after a steam leak was detected near…

China

Fuel loading completed at two new Chinese units

The initial loading of fuel assemblies into the cores of Taipingling unit 2 and Changjiang unit 3 - both Hualong One (HPR1000) reactors - has been completed ahe…

China

First Taipingling unit enters commercial operation

On 19 April, unit 1 of the Taipingling nuclear power plant has entered commercial operation, China General Nuclear announced. The unit is the first of six Hualo…

South Korea

Four Regions Vie to Host South Korea's New Nuclear Reactors

Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power (KHNP) announced on the 30th that Ulju-gun, Ulsan; Yeongdeok-gun, North Gyeongsang Province; Gyeongju, North Gyeongsang Province; an…

Russian

Rosatom completes pilot operation of REMIX fuel

This is a key milestone in the qualification of uranium-plutonium fuel for VVER reactors

Japan

QST and NTT Achieve World's First Ultra-Fast Real-Time Plasma Control Communication

National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology (hereinafter QST) and NTT, Inc. (hereinafter NTT) have successfully realized fast frequent, real‑time co…

Russian

Vietnam, Russia sign agreement on new nuclear plant

An intergovernmental agreement has been signed on cooperation in the construction of the Ninh Thuan 1 Nuclear Power Plant in Vietnam, to feature two VVER‑1200 …

Sweden

Application submitted for Swedish SMR plant

Kärnfull Next has submitted an application to build a power plant based on small modular reactors in the municipality of Valdemarsvik in Östergöt…

India

Power Grid board approves Rs 705 crore investment for procurement of transformers and reactors

Power Grid Corporation of India Limited (PGCIL) has approved an investment of Rs 705.30 crore for the procurement of cold spare transformers and reactors, as pa…

SMR

X-energy, Talen to assess deployment of multiple SMR plants

US advanced nuclear technology developer X-energy Reactor Company has signed a Letter of Intent with Talen Energy Corporation to assess deploying X-energy's…