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How a Rolls-Royce SMR might look (Image: Rolls-Royce SMR)

Great British Energy - Nuclear has been granted an electricity generating licence - required by all electricity generating companies - by the UK's


Workers on the roof of the shelter after the drone strike

An interim report on options for the full restoration of the New Safe Confinement's protective functions is due to be presented later this month.


Rig Aerial

California-based startup Deep Fission, which aims to place small modular reactors in boreholes a mile underground, has begun drilling the first of


Bristol Airport

The UK's Rolls-Royce SMR has signed a memorandum of understanding with strategic and technical consultancy and project development company Equilibr


The FiR1 research reactor (Image: Fortum)

Finland's Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority has declared that the site of the country's first nuclear reactor is no longer classified as a nuc


A rendering of a Stellaris power plant (Image: Proxima Fusion)

Munich-based Proxima Fusion has signed an agreement with the Free State of Bavaria, RWE, and Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics to construct t


The existing Wylfa nuclear power plant, which is being decommissioned (Image: Magnox Ltd)

UK land and property consultancy Fisher German has secured a contract to provide Great British Energy - Nuclear with expert advice during the plann


A rendering of the completed SRP (Image: Proicere Digital)

UK pressure vessel manufacturer LTi Metaltech Ltd has been awarded a contract worth more than GBP45 million (USD60 million) by Sellafield Ltd to ma


A Blue Capsule plant for end users (Image: Blue Capsule)

French small modular reactor developer Blue Capsule Technology has announced the start of construction of ELISE - a full-size test rig for sodium a


TerraPower's Natrium reactor enters UK GDA process

The Bill Gates-chaired company's Natrium 345 MWe sodium-cooled fast reactor with a molten-salt-based energy storage system has been accepted into t