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June 05, 2025
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Wendelstein 7-X Achieves Fusion Milestone with Record-Breaking Triple Product



Berlin, Germany (SPX) Jun 04, 2025
In a significant advance for nuclear fusion research, the Wendelstein 7-X (W7-X) stellarator at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics has achieved a new world record for the triple product during extended plasma operation. This milestone, reached in the OP 2.3 campaign, demonstrates stellarators' potential to meet the requirements of a future fusion power plant. On May 22, researchers sustained a record-high triple product value for 43 seconds, outperforming previous long-pulse benchmarks for fusi ... read more

CIVIL NUCLEAR
Intelligent Control System Enhances Space Reactor Performance under Uncertainty
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jun 03, 2025
Researchers from the University of South China, Tsinghua University, and the Technical University of Munich have developed an advanced uncertainty model and intelligent control system that improves ... more
CIVIL NUCLEAR
Iran says no nuclear deal if deprived of 'peaceful activities'
Cairo (AFP) June 2, 2025
Iran said Monday it will not accept a nuclear agreement that deprives it of what it called "peaceful activities", a reference to uranium enrichment, as it pressed the United States for guarantees it would drop sanctions. ... more
DISASTER MANAGEMENT
Recycling contaminated soil from Fukushima: Japan's dilemma
Iitate, Japan (AFP) June 1, 2025
To reduce radiation across Japan's northern Fukushima region after the 2011 nuclear disaster, authorities scraped a layer of contaminated soil from swathes of land. ... more
CIVIL NUCLEAR
Czechs sign nuclear deal with S.Korea firm KHNP: PM
Prague (AFP) June 4, 2025
A Czech state-run company signed Wednesday a deal with South Korea's KHNP to build two nuclear reactors in the EU country after a court dismissed a bid by France's EDF to block the deal. ... more
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IAEA head in Damascus to discuss nuclear power
Damascus (AFP) June 4, 2025
UN nuclear watchdog head Rafael Grossi said Wednesday his agency and Syrian authorities would begin "exploring the possibility of nuclear power", on his first visit to Damascus since the ouster of Bashar al-Assad. ... more
DISASTER MANAGEMENT
UK nuclear site could leak until 2050s, MPs warn
London (AFP) June 4, 2025
Britain's most hazardous building threatens to leak radioactive water until the 2050s unless the clean-up of a former nuclear power plant is quickened, UK lawmakers warned on Wednesday. ... more
CIVIL NUCLEAR
Meta secures nuclear energy in 20-year Illinois plant deal
Washington (AFP) June 3, 2025
Facebook owner Meta announced Tuesday a 20-year nuclear energy agreement with US-based Constellation Energy to secure power from a nuclear plant in the state of Illinois. ... more
CIVIL NUCLEAR
Moscow says Iran has 'right' to peaceful nuclear programme
Moscow (AFP) June 3, 2025
Moscow said Tuesday that Iran had the "right" to a peaceful nuclear programme, a day after US President Donald Trump said he wanted to rule out "any" enrichment of uranium by Tehran in a new nuclear pact. ... more

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Japan PM's office to accept Fukushima soil
Tokyo (AFP) May 27, 2025
The Japanese premier's office will symbolically accept soil from near the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant to show it is safe, officials said Tuesday, with reports saying it will be used in flower beds. ... more
CIVIL NUCLEAR
Framatome wins contract to supply fuel assemblies to Leibstadt Nuclear Power Plant
Paris, France (SPX) Jun 02, 2025
Framatome has signed a contract with Kernkraftwerk Leibstadt AG (KKL) in Switzerland to supply ATRIUM 11 fuel assemblies to its Leibstadt Nuclear Power Plant over the period 2028-2035. ATRIUM ... more
CIVIL NUCLEAR
New standards in nuclear physics
Villigen, Switzerland (SPX) May 26, 2025
An international research team led by the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI has measured the radius of the nucleus of muonic helium-3 with unprecedented precision. The results are an important stress test ... more
CIVIL NUCLEAR
Seoul's power giant pushes back on EU probe into Czech nuclear bid
Seoul (AFP) May 27, 2025
South Korea's largest electric power company told AFP Tuesday that it was reviewing legal action, including a possible injunction, after a deal with the Czech Republic to build reactors hit EU legal woes. ... more
CIVIL NUCLEAR
Nuclear option: Indonesia seeks to grow energy, cut emissions
Jakarta (AFP) May 27, 2025
Indonesia is hoping going nuclear can help it meet soaring energy demand while taming emissions, but faces serious challenges to its goal of a first small modular reactor by 2032. ... more
CIVIL NUCLEAR
Trump signs orders to boost US nuclear energy
Washington (AFP) May 23, 2025
President Donald Trump signed a series of executive orders Friday to boost nuclear energy in the United States, including by rolling back regulatory processes on a still divisive technology. ... more
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Tennessee Valley Authority applies to build first US BWRX-300 reactor
Los Angeles CA (SPX) May 21, 2025
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) has formally submitted a construction permit application to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission for a BWRX-300 small modular reactor at its Clinch River site in O ... more
CIVIL NUCLEAR
Investment risk for energy infrastructure construction is highest for nuclear power plants, lowest for solar
Boston MA (SPX) May 20, 2025
Between now and 2050, the International Energy Agency projects that more than $100 trillion will be spent on building net-zero energy infrastructure globally. Yet every single one of these projects ... more
CIVIL NUCLEAR
Ontario Approves Construction of GE Vernova Hitachi's BWRX-300 Small Modular Reactor
London, UK (SPX) May 12, 2025
GE Vernova Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GVH) has received approval from the Province of Ontario and Ontario Power Generation (OPG) to begin construction of the first BWRX-300 small modular reactor at OPG ... more
CIVIL NUCLEAR
Vietnam signs nuclear power agreement as it seeks to rebalance US trade
Hanoi (AFP) May 20, 2025
US nuclear power station builder Westinghouse has signed an agreement with Vietnam's biggest energy firm, Hanoi said on Tuesday as it seeks to head off stiff tariffs threatened by the Trump administration. ... more
CIVIL NUCLEAR
Iran says open to regional nuclear fuel consortium
Tehran (AFP) May 19, 2025
Iran on Monday said it was open to establishing a regional nuclear fuel consortium, reiterating that it would not stop enriching uranium. ... more
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Iran says to keep enriching uranium, even with a deal
Tehran (AFP) May 18, 2025
Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Sunday his country would keep enriching uranium "with or without a deal" with world powers, despite ongoing negotiations over its nuclear programme. ... more
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Belgium parliament votes to ditch nuclear power phase-out
Brussels, Belgium (AFP) May 15, 2025
Belgium on Thursday officially abandoned plans to phase out nuclear power, with parliament voting to scrap a two-decades-old pledge and to allow for the construction of new reactors. ... more
CIVIL NUCLEAR
End of nuclear in Taiwan fans energy security fears
Taiwan (AFP) May 15, 2025
Taiwan will turn off its last nuclear reactor on Saturday, fuelling concerns over the self-ruled island's reliance on imported energy and vulnerability to a Chinese blockade. ... more
CIVIL NUCLEAR
New Insights into Asymmetric Nuclear Fission from GSI/FAIR Experiments
Berlin, Germany (SPX) May 15, 2025
An international research team has uncovered a previously unknown region in the nuclear chart characterized by a unique pattern of asymmetric fission among heavy, neutron-deficient isotopes. The fin ... more
DISASTER MANAGEMENT
France pledges 10 mn euros for Chernobyl repair: Europe bank
London (AFP) May 14, 2025
France will contribute 10 million euros to help fix a radiation cover at the Chernobyl nuclear plant in Ukraine allegedly hit by a Russian drone, Europe's development bank announced Wednesday. ... more
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EU asks Prague to hold off on S.Korean nuclear deal
Brussels, Belgium (AFP) May 12, 2025
The EU has asked the Czech Republic to suspend signing a deal with South Korean company KHNP to build two nuclear units as it probes whether subsidies distorted competition, according to a letter seen by AFP Monday. ... more
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Google agrees to fund three US nuclear plants
Washington (AFP) May 7, 2025
Tech giant Google and nuclear developer Elementl Power have signed an agreement to develop three advanced nuclear power plants in the United States, according to a statement released Wednesday. ... more
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EDF complaint blocks Czech-Korean nuclear deal
Prague (AFP) May 6, 2025
A Czech court said Tuesday it blocked a multi-billion-dollar deal between Prague and South Korea's KHNP on the construction of two nuclear units following a complaint by France's EDF. ... more
ENERGY TECH
UT Austin researchers advance magnetic fusion design with new confinement method
Los Angeles CA (SPX) May 06, 2025
Abundant and affordable clean energy moved a step closer to realization thanks to a breakthrough by scientists from The University of Texas at Austin, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and Type One En ... more
ENERGY TECH
New model enhances accuracy in fusion barrier predictions for nuclear research
Sydney, Australia (SPX) May 06, 2025
An international team of physicists has developed an advanced model that precisely predicts the energy thresholds critical to heavy-ion fusion reactions. By integrating the Skyrme energy density fun ... more
ENERGY TECH
Fusion modeling breakthrough accelerates stellarator design and confinement accuracy
Los Angeles CA (SPX) May 06, 2025
Abundant and affordable clean energy from fusion took a leap forward as scientists at The University of Texas at Austin, in collaboration with Los Alamos National Laboratory and Type One Energy Grou ... more
CIVIL NUCLEAR
AI driven algorithm streamlines next generation nuclear reactor shielding design
Sydney, Australia (SPX) May 01, 2025
The Nuclear Engineering and Application Laboratory (NEAL) at the University of South China has introduced a transformative approach to radiation shielding design for nuclear reactors. Leveraging adv ... more
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