The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission is now back up to four commissioners. Following a 66–32 confirmation vote in the U.S. Senate last month, Ho Nieh was officially sworn in last week. Read more on Nuclear NewsWire: www.ans.org/news/2025-12...

Deep Fission has announced that it will break ground on its associated project today in Parsons, Kan. It’s one of many companies in the program that has made significant headway in recent months. Read more about the company's progress on Nuclear NewsWire: www.ans.org/news/2025-12...

INL has selected five teams for its MARVEL Project to develop a sodium-potassium–cooled microreactor designed to test microreactor applications, create regulatory processes, and explore electrical and nonelectrical uses. Read more on Nuclear NewsWire: www.ans.org/news/2025-12...

In 2018, Dominion initiated a program of upgrades at Surry NPP to equip it for extended operation. The upgrades include a first-of-a-kind engineering program to replace analog control and protection systems with digital I&C. Read the full interview on Nuclear NewsWire: www.ans.org/news/2025-12...

The Department of Energy has selected the Tennessee Valley Authority and Holtec Government Services to support the early deployments of light water small modular reactors in the United States. Read more on Nuclear NewsWire: www.ans.org/news/2025-12...

The DOE recently announced that General Atomics has successfully completed the conceptual design of its new helium gas–cooled fast modular reactor. This milestone moves the company one step closer to a target demonstration in the 2030s. Read more on Nuclear Newswire: www.ans.org/news/2025-12...

DOE-EM said it was insight and a questioning attitude from a project manager that led to the accelerated demolition of the Alpha-4 building at the Y-12 National Security Complex, helping save millions in costs to taxpayers. Read more on Nuclear NewsWire: www.ans.org/news/2025-12...

The DOE announced an organizational realignment that moved 3 offices, scrapped 16, and created 9 new ones. Read the details on Nuclear NewsWire: www.ans.org/news/2025-11...

The NRC announced that it has received the first portion of a construction permit application from Atomic Alchemy that requests permission to build four nonpower reactors for a radioisotope production facility at Idaho National Laboratory. Read more on Nuclear NewsWire: www.ans.org/news/2025-11...

As President Trump hosted Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at the White House, Energy Secretary Wright confirmed that the U.S. and Saudi Arabia have signed a “historic” deal on cooperation in the civilian nuclear energy sector. Read more on Nuclear NewsWire: www.ans.org/news/2025-11...

AI for energy, and energy for AI: that is the new refrain. But can nuclear power plants be deployed at the pace needed for substantial and timely contributions to the energy infrastructure? Read more on Nuclear NewsWire: www.ans.org/news/2025-11...

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The University of California has awarded $8 million in multicampus research grants in partnership with UC-managed national laboratories to fund research aimed at accelerating progress toward fusion energy. Read more on Nuclear NewsWire: www.ans.org/news/2025-11...

It has been about three months since the DOE named 10 companies for its new Reactor Pilot Program, which maps out how the DOE would meet the goal of having three reactors achieve criticality by July 4, 2026. Read a progress update for each company on Nuclear NewsWire: www.ans.org/news/2025-11...

Nuclear News talked with Constellation’s Mike Kramer on the world of power deals in the new data economy. That Q&A explored the staying power of new demand, working with hyperscalers, marketing large-scale reactors, uprates, and more. Read more on Nuclear NewsWire: www.ans.org/news/2025-11...

X-energy has officially begun confirmatory irradiation testing at INL on its TRISO-X fuel. The testing will evaluate the fuel across a variety of operating scenarios and will be instrumental in qualifying it for commercial use. Read more on Nuclear NewsWire: www.ans.org/news/2025-11...

At ANS's Winter Conference & Expo, leaders of advanced reactor start-ups Radiant, Oklo, and Valar Atomics praised the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s Reactor Pilot Program, in which the companies are participating. Read what they had to say on Nuclear NewsWire: www.ans.org/news/2025-11...

Today, during speeches at the American Nuclear Society’s Winter Conference & Expo Energy Secretary Chris Wright and NRC Chair David Wright both promised that the Trump administration will speed up nuclear reviews. Read more on Nuclear NewsWire: www.ans.org/news/2025-11...

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the Army Corps of Engineers have completed a draft supplemental environmental impact statement for a small modular reactor at the Tennessee Valley Authority Clinch River nuclear site in Oak Ridge, Tenn. Read more on Nuclear NewsWire: www.ans.org/news/2025-11...

Earlier this week, we announced the second annual 40 Under 40. Today, we are sharing with the community the profiles of the individuals on this year’s list. Read a feature on each of the new list members on Nuclear NewsWire: https://www.ans.org/news/article-7474/inuclear-newsi-40-under-402025/

The Trump White House has nominated seasoned nuclear regulatory expert Douglas Weaver for a commissioner seat on the NRC. If confirmed, Weaver would fill the seat vacated by NRC commissioner Annie Caputo, who resigned in July. Read more on Nuclear NewsWire: www.ans.org/news/2025-11...

"There has been a lot of discussion lately about reforming the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. But I want to be clear: When it comes to nuclear safety and security, there is no place for partisan politics." Read more from former NRC chair Dale Klein on Nuclear NewsWire: www.ans.org/news/2025-11...

Following a meeting last week with President Donald Trump, Japan has announced that it would provide up to $332 billion to support critical energy projects in the U.S., including the construction of nuclear reactor projects. Read more on Nuclear NewsWire: www.ans.org/news/2025-11...

The Illinois General Assembly passed a clean energy bill on October 30 that lifts a 30-year moratorium on new nuclear energy in the state and creates incentives for more energy storage. Read more on Nuclear NewsWire: www.ans.org/news/2025-10...

The DOE, Argonne National Laboratory, NVIDIA, and Oracle have agreed to a public-private partnership to deliver the DOE’s largest AI supercomputers, named Solstice and Equinox. Read more on Nuclear NewsWire: www.ans.org/news/2025-10...

Ho Nieh, the Trump administration’s nominee to be a member of the NRC, and four new board members of the TVA were approved in a vote yesterday by the Senate EPW Committee and head to the Senate floor for a final vote. Read more on Nuclear NewsWire: www.ans.org/news/2025-10...

The U.S. government has signed an $80 billion deal with Westinghouse Electric Company to build large-scale nuclear reactors to support growing electricity demand from artificial intelligence. Go deeper on Nuclear NewsWire: www.ans.org/news/2025-10...

The DOE has a plan for private companies to “dispose of surplus plutonium”—about 19.7 metric tons in both oxide and metal forms—by “making the materials available for advanced nuclear technologies.” Read more on Nuclear NewsWire: www.ans.org/news/2025-10...

The board of directors of South Carolina’s state-owned utility Santee Cooper voted on Friday to approve the proposal from Brookfield Asset Management to complete two new AP1000 power reactors at the V.C. Summer site in Jenkinsville, S.C. Read more on Nuclear NewsWire: www.ans.org/news/2025-10...

INL has a key role in helping the DOE meet near-­term needs by recovering HALEU from federal inventories, providing critical support to help lay the foundation for a future commercial HALEU supply chain. Read Donna Kemp Spangler’s full feature on Nuclear NewsWire: www.ans.org/news/2025-10...

Four nominees to serve on the TVA's board told the Senate EPW Committee that they support the build-out of new advanced nuclear reactors to meet the increased energy demand being shouldered by the country’s largest public utility. Read more on Nuclear NewsWire: www.ans.org/news/2025-10...

Holtec International has announced that Palisades nuclear power plant has received its first fuel shipment, a key step ahead of its highly anticipated restart by the end of the year. Read more on Nuclear NewsWire: www.ans.org/news/2025-10...

Secretary of the Army Dan Driscoll and Energy Secretary Chris Wright recently revealed the joint Janus Program, which aims to design next-generation nuclear power and builds on multiple military efforts already underway. Read more on Nuclear NewsWire: www.ans.org/news/2025-10...

The DOE Office of Environmental Management announced the start of nuclear vitrification operations at the Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP), also known as the Vit Plant, at the Hanford Site in Washington state. Read more on Nuclear NewsWire: www.ans.org/news/2025-10...

At INL's Hot Fuel Examination Facility, researchers are currently working on postirradiation examination and testing for Westinghouse next-generation fuel rods. Read Cory Hatch’s full feature on Nuclear NewsWire: www.ans.org/news/2025-10...

ANS sent a letter to Energy Secretary Chris Wright with a set of recommendations for the DOE to take to establish an effective national program to manage the storage, reprocessing, and final disposal of U.S. commercial used nuclear fuel. Read more on Nuclear NewsWire: www.ans.org/news/2025-10...

Sellafield Ltd., the company overseeing the decommissioning of the U.K.’s Sellafield nuclear site awarded £2.9 billion in infrastructure support contracts to Morgan Sindall Infrastructure, Costain, and HOCHTIEF (UK) Construction. Read more on Nuclear NewsWire: www.ans.org/news/2025-10...

On day 10 of the government shutdown, the National Nuclear Security Administration had yet to furlough workers, but a spokesperson said that could change if members of Congress don’t agree on a continuing resolution to keep the government funded. Read more here: www.ans.org/news/2025-10...

ANS wrote the US Department of Energy in response to Executive Order 14302, offering expert recommendations on the storage, reprocessing, and disposal of used nuclear fuel: ans.org/file/21901/1/1…

Earlier this year, under the DOE-sponsored Microreactor Project, INL conducted a comprehensive phenomena identification and ranking table (PIRT) exercise aimed at advancing heat pipe technology for microreactor applications. Read the full feature on Nuclear NewsWire: www.ans.org/news/2025-10...

During a Senate EPW Committee hearing yesterday, Ho Nieh, President Trump’s nominee to serve as a commissioner at the NRC, was urged to maintain the agency’s independence regardless of political pressure from the Trump administration. Go deeper on Nuclear NewsWire: www.ans.org/news/2025-10...

The NRC has approved a license application submitted by Disa Technologies to use high-pressure slurry ablation technology for remediating abandoned uranium mine waste at inactive mining sites. Read more on Nuclear NewsWire: www.ans.org/news/2025-10...

Duke Energy is looking to add SMRs and large LWRs to its fleet in the coming years to meet increased energy demands expected in its southeast region over the next 15 years. Read more on Nuclear NewsWire: www.ans.org/news/2025-10...

The NRC has authorized Urenco USA to enrich uranium up to 10 percent U-235 following changes to plant systems and procedures and an operational readiness review. Go deeper on Nuclear NewsWire: www.ans.org/news/2025-10...

SRNL is working to solve key obstacles in the nuclear fuel supply chain by providing a source of high-assay low-enriched uranium fuel for advanced reactors. Read Catelyn Folkert's full feature on Nuclear NewsWire: www.ans.org/news/article...

The DOE and the NRC will furlough thousands of employees and operate at reduced capacity under a government shutdown that followed a failed congressional vote on a short-term funding bill. Read more about the shutdown's impact on the nuclear sector on Nuclear NewsWire: www.ans.org/news/2025-10...

Following the same milestones from Aalo Atomics and Valar Atomics, Oklo has become the third company participating in the DOE's Nuclear Reactor Pilot Program to break ground on its fast-tracked project at Idaho National Laboratory. Read more on Nuclear NewsWire: www.ans.org/news/2025-09...

Nuclear waste disposal technology company Deep Isolation Nuclear announced it has signed a technology licensing agreement with government contractor Navarro Research and Engineering. Read more on Nuclear NewsWire: www.ans.org/news/2025-09...

NPP refueling outages are a complex time, with thousands of actions conducted within a short timeframe. The Outage Optimization project is focused on developing tools and methods to improve scheduling and in turn improve efficiency. Read more on Nuclear NewsWire: www.ans.org/news/article...

Zeno Power, a developer of nuclear batteries, is to receive americium-241 recovered from Orano's La Hague nuclear fuel recycling site. Read more on Nuclear NewsWire: www.ans.org/news/2025-09...