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A rendering of a Stellaris power plant (Image: Proxima Fusion)

Munich-based Proxima Fusion has signed an agreement with the Free State of Bavaria, RWE, and Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics to construct t


The existing Wylfa nuclear power plant, which is being decommissioned (Image: Magnox Ltd)

UK land and property consultancy Fisher German has secured a contract to provide Great British Energy - Nuclear with expert advice during the plann


A rendering of the completed SRP (Image: Proicere Digital)

UK pressure vessel manufacturer LTi Metaltech Ltd has been awarded a contract worth more than GBP45 million (USD60 million) by Sellafield Ltd to ma


A Blue Capsule plant for end users (Image: Blue Capsule)

French small modular reactor developer Blue Capsule Technology has announced the start of construction of ELISE - a full-size test rig for sodium a


TerraPower's Natrium reactor enters UK GDA process

The Bill Gates-chaired company's Natrium 345 MWe sodium-cooled fast reactor with a molten-salt-based energy storage system has been accepted into t


Tests confirm integrity of Deep Isolation disposal canister

US nuclear waste disposal company Deep Isolation says that a two-year research project that subjected its Universal Canister System to the kinds of


Norway nuclear waste facilities

Norwegian Nuclear Decommissioning has invited the municipalities to express an interest in taking part in the process of finding a suitable locatio


An NWMO employee explains the impact assessment process at an event

The Initial Project Description for the proposed underground deep geological repository system for Canada's used nuclear fuel has been posted on th


GyroSwin (UKAEA)

A team of scientists from the UK Atomic Energy Authority, the Johannes Kepler University Linz, and Emmi AI, have developed an artificial intelligen


Geological repository projects

By Alex Hunt, World Nuclear News, in Vienna