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ASNR opens passive safety system testing facility
ASNR opens passive safety system testing facility
France's nuclear safety regulator has inaugurated new research infrastructure and facilities at its Cadarache site for studying the reliability of passive safety systems. It aims to generate the scientific knowledge necessary for the independent safety assessment of innovative reactors and small modular reactors.
 
Monday, 9 November 2026
Heat raised for UK's MAST Upgrade fusion machine
Heat raised for UK's MAST Upgrade fusion machine
A 12-tonne double beam box, which is set to double the UK's flagship fusion machine's plasma conditions to 60 million degrees Celsius, has been moved into position.
 
Fusion · Wednesday, 4 November 2026
Next-generation fuel projects get US federal funding
Next-generation fuel projects get US federal funding
Eight nuclear fuel technology projects have been selected to receive a share of up to USD50 million of federal funding under a US Department of Energy programme to support R&D to deliver TRU fuel technologies.
 
Uranium & Fuel · Monday, 2 November 2026
Germany narrows search for radioactive waste repository location
Germany narrows search for radioactive waste repository location
The Federal Company for Radioactive Waste Disposal said that in the past year it has reduced the area that it is considering in the site selection procedure for Germany's planned high-level radioactive waste repository from 25% of the country's territory to less than 5%.
 
Waste & Recycling · Thursday, 29 October 2026
The challenge of securing uranium from seawater - podcast
The challenge of securing uranium from seawater - podcast
Supercritical Materials has an exclusive licence from the US Department of Energy for a patented system to extract uranium from the world's oceans. Founder and CEO Canon Bryan outlined the company's plans to the World Nuclear News podcast.
 
Podcasts & Features · Thursday, 22 October 2026
Thorizon, TNO launch MSR materials programme
Thorizon, TNO launch MSR materials programme
Molten salt reactor developer Thorizon and Dutch research and technology organisation TNO have launched a materials and corrosion programme to generate the experimental data and predictive models required to qualify materials for molten salt reactors.
 
New Nuclear · Friday, 16 October 2026
US DOE funding to accelerate molten salt reactor development
US DOE funding to accelerate molten salt reactor development
The Molten Chloride Reactor Experiment aims to achieve first criticality in 2027, with the US Department of Energy approving cost-shared funding under its Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program.
 
New Nuclear · Thursday, 15 October 2026
Newcleo opens MOX fuel development centre
Newcleo opens MOX fuel development centre
Innovative nuclear energy company Newcleo has inaugurated its EUR10 million (USD11 million) advanced nuclear fuel engineering, testing and training centre located in Chusclan, in the Gard department in southern France.
 
Uranium & Fuel · Thursday, 15 October 2026
Hyundai E&C tests used fuel repository excavation equipment
Hyundai E&C tests used fuel repository excavation equipment
South Korea's Hyundai Engineering & Construction announced it has employed equipment it has developed to excavate a full-scale deposition hole for used nuclear fuel disposal in the bedrock at its research demonstration site.
 
Waste & Recycling · Monday, 12 October 2026
Deployable Energy to test its Unity nuclear battery in DOME
Deployable Energy to test its Unity nuclear battery in DOME
Deployable Energy's Unity demonstration reactor has been selected by the US Department of Energy's National Reactor Innovation Center for testing inside the Demonstration of Microreactor Experiments, or DOME, testbed at the Idaho National Laboratory in 2027.
 
New Nuclear · Wednesday, 7 October 2026
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