News Sweden picks Rolls-Royce SMRs for first nuclear project in 40 years Rolls-Royce has been selected to build a nuclear power facility with three small modular reactors (SMRs), each with an output of 470MW for the Swedish grid. They’ll be set up…
News 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…
Markets, News 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.…
News 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…
News 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…
News 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…
News 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…
News 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…
News 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…
News 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.…
News 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…
News 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…
News 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…
News 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…
News 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.…
News 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…
News 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…
News 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…