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Latest advanced nuclear news and analysis — 29 articles tagged advanced nuclear on The Robotics Media.
- Germany Launches 3 Fusion Hubs With €125 Million Backing — — Germany's federal research ministry has launched three national fusion hubs — VEGA, STRIDE and MAT-TRIX — with €125 million to consolidate laser, magn...
- Type One Energy Licenses Four ORNL Cryogenic Fueling Techs For Stellarator Fusion — — Oak Ridge National Laboratory transferred four cryogenic pellet fueling inventions to Type One Energy to move stellarator fusion out of the lab and to...
- Antares Bags $470M Series C To Field Nuclear Microreactors On Military Bases By 2028 — — Torrance-based Antares closed a $470M Series C co-led by Paradigm and Caffeinated Capital, funding its Mark-1 electricity-producing reactor in 2027 an...
- Deep Fission Gets DOE Safety Nod for Mile-Deep Gravity SMR — — The U.S. Department of Energy has approved Deep Fission's Nuclear Safety Design Agreement for its Gravity underground small modular reactor, clearing...
- Commonwealth Fusion Systems Raises $1B, Total Funding Hits $4B — — Commonwealth Fusion Systems on July 30 closed a $1 billion equity round, the largest fusion financing since its 2021 Series B, bringing total capital...
- ORNL And Rutherford Energy Ventures Launch FULCRA Fusion Test-Bed Consortium — — Oak Ridge National Laboratory and MIT-founded Rutherford Energy Ventures launched FULCRA, a public-private consortium that will build shared fusion te...
- Centrus To Enrich HALEU For X-energy As TRISO-X Expands Oak Ridge Campus — — Centrus Energy will supply low-enriched and high-assay LEU to fuel X-energy's Xe-100 SMR deployments, while TRISO-X buys 70 more acres to expand its T...
- Oklo's Groves Isotope Test Reactor Reaches Criticality In Texas — — 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 — — Constellation Technology Ventures has made its first SMR investment, backing MIT-spinout Blue Energy to industrialise shipyard-built nuclear plants ai...
- Mangoceuticals Merges With Nuclea Energy To Take Morpheus Microreactor Public On Nasdaq — — Nasdaq-listed telemedicine shell Mangoceuticals will amalgamate Ontario's Nuclea Energy into a subsidiary, giving public investors exposure to the lea...
- Crusoe And Aalo Atomics Team Up To Build The First Nuclear-Powered AI Factory — — Crusoe and Aalo Atomics will pair a Crusoe Spark modular data center with an Aalo XMR reactor at Idaho National Laboratory in 2027 to prove out nuclea...
- Rolls-Royce SMR Wins Two More Czech Sites As CEZ Charts 3 GW SMR Fleet — — 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 — — South Korea's Hyundai Engineering & Construction has signed a framework agreement with First American Nuclear Company on the EAGL-1 lead-bismuth SMR,...
- Samsung Heavy And Sargent & Lundy Sign MOU For Reactor-Agnostic Floating SMR — — South Korea's Samsung Heavy Industries and Chicago-based Sargent & Lundy signed an MOU July 21 in Washington to jointly develop a reactor-agnostic flo...
- SGE Consortium Files To Build 14 BWRX-300 SMRs Across Three UK Sites — — 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 — — 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 — — The Korea Research Institute of Ships & Ocean Engineering, Samsung Heavy Industries and KAERI have secured Approval in Principle from the American Bur...
- Valar Atomics In Talks For $1B Sequoia Round At $6B As Nvidia Signs On — — Nuclear startup Valar Atomics is in talks to raise about $1B led by Sequoia at a $6B valuation, coupling the round with a new Nvidia partnership to po...
- Deployable Energy's Unity Microreactor Achieves Criticality At Idaho National Lab In 150 Days — — Houston-based Deployable Energy's Unity demonstration reactor reached initial criticality at Idaho National Laboratory on June 30, 2026, becoming the...
- EDF Wins 20-Year Sizewell B Life Extension, Nine UK Nuclear Sites Now Locked In Until 2055 — — The UK government and EDF have finalised a 20-year life extension for the Sizewell B pressurised water reactor, keeping Britain's newest large nuclear...