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SMR developer Arc Clean Technology has signed a memorandum of understanding with Deep Atomic to jointly explore deployment opportunities across North America.
Private-sector data center plans advance for Paducah and Savannah River sites
The Department of Energy has announced two partnership agreements to construct AI data centers combined with energy infrastructure at DOE sites. This week, agency announced a partnership with...
ARC partners with INL for first reactor deployment
Earlier this week, ARC Clean Technology announced that it has entered into a Strategic Partnership Project agreement with Battelle Energy Alliance—the management and operating contractor of...
The Ratepayer Protection Pledge: Who’s signed on?
In March, seven tech companies and hyperscalers signed on to President Trump's Ratepayer Protection Pledge, a voluntary agreement stating that, in the pursuit of data center growth,...
Long Beach is first port to partner with MARAD on maritime reactors
The Department of Transportation’s Maritime Administration has signed a first-of-a-kind memorandum of cooperation (MOC) with the Port of Long Beach, in southern California, to advance the...
Nuclear is prominent in Genesis Mission projects
The Department of Energy announced yesterday that it has selected 278 projects under the Genesis Mission request for applications, which opened in March. According to a White House press...
Researchers demonstrate remote real-time adjustment of PUR-1 reactor
The remote, automatic, real-time adjustment of a research reactor’s power by a geographically distributed control system has been reported by researchers from Idaho National Laboratory, the...
Team brings quantum computing into FLiBe chemistry calculations
Researchers have reported using a combination of quantum and classical computing to calculate chemistry connected to tritium speciation in a FLiBe—lithium fluoride and beryllium...
Sizewell B gets 20-year life extension; SMR agreements signed around the world
Sizewell B, on the Suffolk coast of England, has been granted a 20-year life extension. The nuclear power plant, which began operating in 1995, will now remain in operation until 2055....
Palisades: Restart projects, Holtec IPO, lawsuit dismissal—but no restart date
The ongoing work to restart Holtec’s Palisades nuclear power plant, which last operated in 2022, has transitioned out of large-scale projects and into smaller activities, plant owner and...
NEA: “Transformative scenario” is needed to reach COP28 goal by 2050
In 2023, more than 20 countries at the World Climate Action Summit of the 28th Conference of the Parties to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP28) set the goal of tripling...