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Navy Picks Crane, Indiana for First Military Nuclear Microreactor by 2028 — Sep 26, 2026 — The Department of War has selected Naval Weapons Station Crane in southern Indiana for the U.S. Navy's first advanced nuclear microreactor deployment,...China's ENN Group Breaks Ground On Helong-2 Hydrogen-Boron Fusion Plant — Sep 26, 2026 — ENN's 120-acre Langfang plant targets aneutronic fusion electricity by 2030 with a spherical-torus proton-boron design that skirts the D-T neutron pro...GE Vernova, Hitachi, Samsung C&T And SGE Sign BWRX-300 Europe Pact — Sep 23, 2026 — GE Vernova, Hitachi, Samsung C&T and Poland's SGE signed a four-party MoU on September 22, 2026 to co-develop a BWRX-300 small modular reactor fleet a...Italy Senate Greenlights Return To Nuclear Power In 81-51 Vote — Sep 23, 2026 — Italy's Senate passed legislation setting up a legal framework for a return to nuclear power four decades after Chernobyl, focused on small modular re...House Ratepayer Protection Act Sends Oklo Up 13%, NuScale 10% As Nuclear Bets On Data-Center Load — Sep 19, 2026 — The US House passed the Ratepayer Protection Act on Sept 17, 2026, requiring hyperscale data centers to fund their own generation. Oklo jumped 13% and...Google to Invest €13B in Finland, Backing Fortum’s Loviisa Nuclear Plant Through 2050 — Sep 10, 2026 — Alphabet unveils a €13B Finnish data-center program anchored by a 22-year Loviisa nuclear PPA, 629 MW of new wind and a 94 MW battery near Kajaani.Wylfa SMR Client Lines Up £1.1bn Early Works Package For UK's First Small Modular Reactor Site — Sep 10, 2026 — Great British Energy - Nuclear is sounding out contractors for a £730m-£1.1bn preparatory package at Anglesey's Wylfa site, the UK's first small modul...DOE Closes $1.9B Loan To Restart Iowa's Duane Arnold Nuclear Plant For Google — Sep 9, 2026 — The Energy Department's second AI-era nuclear restart loan hands NextEra $1.9B to bring the 615 MW Duane Arnold reactor back online by 2029 to serve G...Rolls-Royce SMR, ČEZ Sign MoU For Two More Czech SMR Sites, Targeting 3 GW — Sep 7, 2026 — Rolls-Royce SMR, ČEZ and the Czech Ministry of Industry and Trade have signed a memorandum of understanding to enable site preparation at two addition...Siemens Energy To Build Rolls-Royce SMR Steam Turbines At Newcastle CA Parsons Works — Sep 6, 2026 — Siemens Energy will manufacture high-pressure turbines and valve casings for the first three Rolls-Royce SMR units at the Gwyndod project, supporting...Tennessee Issues US-First Commercial Fusion License to Type One Energy — Sep 5, 2026 — Tennessee issued the nation's first commercial fusion license to Type One Energy, clearing groundbreaking on Project Infinity at TVA's Bull Run Energy...Rolls-Royce SMR, CEZ sign Temelin early works pact for Czech first — Sep 4, 2026 — Rolls-Royce SMR and CEZ Group have signed an Early Works Contract that lets site-specific design, licensing and permitting begin at Temelin, Czechia's...Blykalla Seeks Swedish State Aid For Second SMR Park At Untra — Sep 3, 2026 — Blykalla has applied for Swedish state support to build up to eight lead-cooled SEALER small modular reactors at Untra in Tierp — 440 MWe of new nucle...IAEA Launches ATLAS Maritime Nuclear Initiative With 26 Countries — Aug 30, 2026 — The IAEA's new ATLAS initiative, launched in Washington with 26 signatory states and 600 delegates, is the first coordinated effort to write the safet...LLNL, Ampera Team On Thorium-TRISO Fuel In THUNDER Project — Aug 29, 2026 — Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Florida startup Ampera have partnered on THUNDER, a project to fabricate TRISO nuclear-reactor fuel with th...Antares Nuclear Locks In Multi-Year TRISO Fuel Supply From Standard Nuclear Through 2035 — Aug 28, 2026 — Antares Nuclear signed a binding multi-year fuel supply agreement with Standard Nuclear for up to eight MTUs of TRISO fuel through 2035, anchoring fue...Blue Energy And GE Vernova Hitachi Advance 2.5 GW Gas-Plus-Nuclear Plant In Texas — Aug 25, 2026 — Blue Energy and GE Vernova Hitachi Nuclear Energy signed an agreement to advance a 2.5 GW gas-plus-nuclear plant in Victoria, Texas designed to feed A...Kairos Power Launches NuCAMP Alliance To Fill Advanced Nuclear Workforce Gap — Aug 21, 2026 — Kairos Power has signed an MOU with Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the University of Tennessee, IACMI and East Tennessee schools to launch NuCAMP, a w...Curio, NuScale and Framatome Sign MOU to Build a U.S. SMR Fuel Cycle — Aug 17, 2026 — Curio, NuScale Power and Framatome inked a three-way MOU on 6 August 2026 to evaluate an integrated closed-loop fuel cycle for small modular reactors...Germany Launches 3 Fusion Hubs With €125 Million Backing — Aug 16, 2026 — Germany's federal research ministry has launched three national fusion hubs — VEGA, STRIDE and MAT-TRIX — with €125 million to consolidate laser, magn...