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Air strikes leave 200 Russian workers stranded at Iranian nuclear power site

US and Israeli airstrikes have stranded some 150 to 200 Russian construction workers at the Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant. Russian state media network Tass said 639 people have been evacuated…

2026 may be the year the global ‘Nuclear Renaissance’ began

A consortium led by US engineer Amentum has won a contract to provide programme management, planning and development for up to two new gigawatt-scale nuclear power plants in the Netherlands.…

Team picked to deliver Europe’s first SMR power stations

Mace Consult, Hochtieff, Turner & Townsend and Unipart have been appointed to the delivery partner team helping Rolls-Royce build nuclear power plants with small modular reactor (SMRs). They’ll join Virginia-headquartered…

US lends $1bn to get Three Mile Island going again for Microsoft

In a vivid sign of how demand for computing is driving a resurgence of US nuclear power, the Trump administration yesterday agreed a $1bn loan to help reboot the mothballed…

US launches $80bn push for nuclear power

The US government has announced an $80bn partnership with Westinghouse, uranium company Cameco, and Brookfield Asset Management to build a wave of new nuclear reactors across the US. Designed to…

Team appointed to build SMRs for Amazon

Cascade Nuclear Partners (CNP), a joint venture of Canada’s Aecon and US firms Black & Veatch and Kiewit, has won a planning, design and construction contract for four small modular…

AtkinsRéalis extends nuclear robotics partnership

Canadian engineer AtkinsRéalis has extended its partnership with Canadian robotics manufacturer Kinova for three more years. The duo previously collaborated at the UK’s Sellafield nuclear site, where Kinova’s robotic arm…

So how’s the UK’s nuclear renaissance going?

Billions are now being spent on two new nuclear power plants in the UK. Tune into the 21CC podcast to hear a leading nuclear expert on why nuclear’s coming back…

Sweden picks contractor for $11bn nuclear waste repository

Swiss tunneller Implenia has been chosen to work on Sweden’s first underground repository for nuclear waste. Svensk Kärnbränslehantering (SKB), the body in charge of disposing spent fuel, awarded the contract.…

Power-hungry Meta signs nuclear and geothermal deals

Meta, the parent of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, this month signed deals securing sources of nuclear and geothermal power as it races to secure enough energy to develop AI. On…

Winners picked for Kazakhstan’s first two nuclear power plants

The government of Kazakhstan has named the companies who will lead construction of two nuclear power plants, state news agency Kazinform reports. The first is to be built by a…

First Nation Peoples in Canada sign nuclear deal with Westinghouse

The Westinghouse Electric Company has signed an agreement in principle with the Pabineau and Eel River Bar First Nations in the eastern Canadian province of New Brunswick to build a…

WSP, Kiewit win role on Canada’s $26bn nuclear waste storage project

Five companies have been awarded a design and engineering contract to prepare plans for a depository for spent nuclear fuel in northwestern Ontario, Canada. The Deep Geological Repository (DGR) will…

Belgium’s parliament votes overwhelmingly for nuclear U-turn

Belgium’s parliament voted overwhelmingly last week in favour of a bill that reverses a law enacted 22 years ago that mandated an end to nuclear power generation, Brussels Times reports.…

Denmark to probe benefits of small nuclear reactors

Forty years after the Danish parliament banned the building of nuclear power plants, Denmark is interested again. Its energy minister Lars Aagaard told newspaper Politiken that the government would assess…

Vietnam, Russia in more talks over nuclear power

Vietnam is still in talks with Russian nuclear engineer Rosatom about building nuclear power plants in Vietnam, the two countries said in a joint statement reported by Reuters. The parties…

Ontario to get small nuclear power in 2030

The Canadian province of Ontario plans to switch on North America’s first small modular reactor (SMR) by 2030 after the provincial government last week gave the nod for construction to…

Iran signs nuclear deal with Russia, opens door to US cooperation

Russia has agreed to help Iran to build a greenfield nuclear power plant (NPP) and to further expand its existing facility in Bushehr on the country’s Gulf coast, the Mehr…

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