Nuclear News Coverage of robotics and AI in the nuclear sector, including remote handling systems, inspection and decommissioning robots, radiation-hardened hardware, and autonomous monitoring at reactor sites and waste facilities. Readers find news on deployments at plants and legacy sites such as Fukushima and Sellafield, research from national labs and universities, and contracts involving operators, regulators, and robotics suppliers.
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...LLNL's Melting-Diamond Study Points To Triple Fusion Gain At NIF — Aug 15, 2026 — New Lawrence Livermore experiments published in Nature Physics on 14 August close a 20-year theory-experiment gap on diamond melting under extreme pre...Type One Energy Licenses Four ORNL Cryogenic Fueling Techs For Stellarator Fusion — Aug 15, 2026 — Oak Ridge National Laboratory transferred four cryogenic pellet fueling inventions to Type One Energy to move stellarator fusion out of the lab and to...Deep Fission Gets DOE Safety Nod for Mile-Deep Gravity SMR — Aug 12, 2026 — The U.S. Department of Energy has approved Deep Fission's Nuclear Safety Design Agreement for its Gravity underground small modular reactor, clearing...ORNL And Rutherford Energy Ventures Launch FULCRA Fusion Test-Bed Consortium — Aug 9, 2026 — Oak Ridge National Laboratory and MIT-founded Rutherford Energy Ventures launched FULCRA, a public-private consortium that will build shared fusion te...Oklo's Groves Isotope Test Reactor Reaches Criticality In Texas — Aug 9, 2026 — Oklo's Groves Isotope Test Reactor achieved criticality Wednesday night in Lockhart, Texas, becoming the fifth reactor authorized under the DOE's acce...Constellation Backs Blue Energy To Shipyard-Build Nuclear Plants For AI Load — Aug 9, 2026 — Constellation Technology Ventures has made its first SMR investment, backing MIT-spinout Blue Energy to industrialise shipyard-built nuclear plants ai...Holtec, Entergy and Hyundai E&C sign MOA to evaluate SMR-300 projects in US Gulf South — Aug 8, 2026 — Holtec International, Entergy and Hyundai E&C signed a memorandum of agreement to jointly evaluate deployment of Holtec's SMR-300 small modular reacto...GE Vernova Hitachi, Velan Team On Valves For Europe SMR Push — Aug 7, 2026 — GE Vernova Hitachi Nuclear Energy and Canada's Velan sign a Paris agreement to supply reactor integral and containment isolation valves for BWRX-300 s...Holtec Wins NRC License Termination For Oyster Creek, Plans Four SMR-300 Reactors For 1.36 GW — Aug 1, 2026 — US Nuclear Regulatory Commission approves Holtec's License Termination Plan for the retired Oyster Creek nuclear station, clearing the way for a plann...Rolls-Royce SMR Wins Two More Czech Sites As CEZ Charts 3 GW SMR Fleet — Jul 26, 2026 — The Czech Ministry of Industry and Trade, CEZ and Rolls-Royce SMR signed an MOU to launch preparatory work at Tusimice and Detmarovice, adding to Teme...Hyundai E&C Signs Framework Deal With FANCO On EAGL-1 SMR Project — Jul 25, 2026 — South Korea's Hyundai Engineering & Construction has signed a framework agreement with First American Nuclear Company on the EAGL-1 lead-bismuth SMR,...SGE Consortium Files To Build 14 BWRX-300 SMRs Across Three UK Sites — Jul 21, 2026 — Poland's SGE has submitted an Advanced Nuclear Framework application for 14 GE Vernova Hitachi BWRX-300 small modular reactors across three UK sites,...GBE-N Hands Amentum And Cavendish £360M Owner's Engineer Deal For UK SMRs — Jul 20, 2026 — Great British Energy - Nuclear has awarded a £360 million, 14-year Owner's Engineer contract to Amentum and Cavendish Nuclear to oversee the UK's smal...ABS Certifies Korean 15,000-TEU Container Ship Powered By Two Molten Salt SMRs — Jul 19, 2026 — The Korea Research Institute of Ships & Ocean Engineering, Samsung Heavy Industries and KAERI have secured Approval in Principle from the American Bur...Realta and Inertia Pick U.S. Homes for Fusion Factories — Jul 18, 2026 — Realta Fusion will build a $55M-incentivized headquarters at Madison's former Oscar Mayer plant, while Inertia Enterprises has opened a 50,000-square-...