Nuclear Notes

Our regular newsletter on what’s happening to move us towards a safer, cleaner nuclear future

  • March 14, 2024

    The NRC Says a Flood is Coming, but It’s Ready; Data Centers Have Discovered Nuclear; Heating with Nuclear

  • February 15. 2024

    Another Reason to Reform the Nuclear Regulatory Commission; When Will Spent Nuclear Fuel Get Moving; Small Modular Reactors Advance in Virginia; Correcting Details About Oklo

  • February 8, 2024

    A Reactor Developer Prepares for its Wall Street Debut; An Autopsy for Advanced Fuel; Poland Wants to Import a Canadian/US Reactor, and a Regulator to Go with It; NASA Presses Ahead with Lunar Reactor Design

  • January 26, 2024

    Clearing the Way for a New Member of the NRC; Thinking Ahead; Thinking Bigger in Alaska; Reactor Ahoy?; Microsoft Hires a Nuclear Vet; Global Nuclear Energy Production Poised to Set a Record

  • January 19, 2024

    Proving a New Reactor Technology, Step by Step; Moving from Talk to Money; Another Reason for Advanced Reactors: Advancing Electricity Demand.

  • January 11, 2024

    NuScale Tightens its Belt; A Second Western Energy Community Wants Nuclear to Replace Coal; Slowly, a Supply Chain Takes Shape.

  • January, 4, 2024

    Water, Water, Everywhere, and also Uranium; Nuclear Energy has Lots of Supporters, but Some are Confused; Baran Nomination Expires; Nuclear Energy for a Carbon-Negative Project?

  • December 21, 2023

    Oklo Pursues an Advanced Reactor, With Off-the-Shelf Parts; Two Streams of Advanced Nuclear Research, Coming Together; Gift Certificates at the National Laboratories.

  • December 14, 2023

    It Won’t Make Electricity, but It Will Make HistoryIt Won’t Make Electricity, but It Will Make History; And Speaking of Pebble Beds… ;Less Advanced but Moving Fast; Concrete Steps for Carbon Control; House Bill Would Eliminate Enriched Uranium from Russia ; and more.

  • December 7, 2023

    How to Get From Coal to Nuclear; At COP 28, Nuclear Leaders Meet, & Agree to Meet Again; Also at Doha…; Restarting One Reactor, and Adding Two More?; The Almost-Former Miss America Gets Another Award.

  • November 30, 2023

    A Rough Patch for Advanced Nuclear; A Big Break for a Small Reactor; A Joint Venture for Micro-reactor Fuel; Nuclear Energy’s Variable Viability.

  • November 16, 2023

    After 36 Years, the Possibility of New Nuclear in IL; NuScale Loses a Customer; Eastern Europe Looks at Nuclear; Natrium is Gearing Up.