US-based Oklo has announced that the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has approved the Principal Design Criteria (PDC) topical report for the Aurora powerhouse currently under construction in ...

US ITER has completed final deliveries for the central solenoid of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) in France.

The basemat foundation module for Canada’s first small modular reactor (SMR) being built at Darlington, Ontario, has been set into place 35 metres below ground in the excavated reactor building shaft.

A specific set of robotic tools is being developed in Japan to support the initial assembly of blanket components for the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) under construction at ...

Installation of elements of the passive heat removal system (SPOT – Sistemi Passivnovo Otvoda Tepla) has been completed on the dome of the reactor building of unit 1 at the Akkuyu NPP under ...

Kazakhstan President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has approved plans to construct at least three NPPs in Kazakhstan by 2060 through a presidential decree On approval of the strategy for the development of ...

India’s prototype fast breeder reactor at Kalpakkam has reached first criticality (Credit: Atomic Energy 2.0) India’s 500 MWe Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor (PFBR) has achieved first criticality ...

The Kazakhstan’s Atomic Energy Agency (KAEA), a year after it was established, has set out its strategy to 2050 noting that the institutional framework for the development of the nuclear industry is ...

French President Emmanuel Macron with IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi at the WNES in Paris (Image credit: IAEA) The second World Nuclear Energy Summit was held in Paris on 10 March, hosted ...

The US Department of Energy (DOE) and the National Reactor Innovation Center (NRIC) have established the Nuclear Energy Launch Pad to promote the rapid development and implementation of advanced ...

Servizi di Ricerche e Sviluppo (SRS), a subsidiary of France-based nuclear start-up newcleo, has been awarded a €36m ($41.7m) contract for the “Research Activities and Experimental Infrastructure for ...

Aerial view of the Chashma Nuclear Power Plant (CHASNUPP) in Pakistan (Credit: CNNC) The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Board of Governors has unanimously approved the agreement between the ...