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The DOE just selected TVA and Holtec for $800 million in SMR awards — federal cash flowing to the first two American utilities racing to deploy commercial small reactors

By Everett Sloane

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The NRC just approved NuScale’s uprated 77-megawatt small modular reactor design — only the second SMR ever cleared in the United States and the most powerful per module

By Everett Sloane

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The Pentagon just signed an $77 million contract with L3Harris to sustain testing of Trident II D5 submarine-launched nuclear missiles — the backbone of U.S. sea-based deterrence

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China’s first commercial small modular reactor is set to start generating power this year — the country racing ahead of every Western SMR project on the schedule

By Everett Sloane

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Ukrainian drones torched five Russian sites in one night — strikes hit Taganrog port, Yaroslavl fuel tanks, Armavir, Volgograd refinery, and the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant

By Everett Sloane

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NuScale just locked in a Tennessee Valley Authority path to 6 gigawatts of U.S. small modular reactors — the biggest SMR deployment plan in the country

By Everett Sloane

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The Department of Energy just greenlit $94 million for eight companies racing to build America’s next small modular reactors — the biggest federal SMR push in a generation

By Everett Sloane

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ITER’s 1,000-ton central solenoid — the magnet strong enough to lift an aircraft carrier — is now fully stacked inside the $22 billion fusion reactor in France

By Everett Sloane

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The Department of Energy just handed out $94 million to eight companies building America’s next small modular reactors — the biggest federal SMR push in a generation

By Everett Sloane

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ITER’s 1,000-ton central solenoid — the magnet powerful enough to lift an aircraft carrier — just finished assembly inside the $22 billion fusion reactor in France

By Everett Sloane

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ITER’s 1,000-ton central solenoid — the magnet powerful enough to lift an aircraft carrier — just finished assembly inside the $22 billion fusion reactor in France

By Everett Sloane

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The Department of Energy just awarded TVA and Holtec $400 million each to build America’s next small modular reactors — the biggest federal push on SMRs in a generation

By Everett Sloane

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New details just surfaced on Russia’s super-weapon sub Khabarovsk — 135 meters long, carrying six nuclear torpedoes designed to wash coastlines with radioactive waves

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Russia just wrapped its Pacific nuclear submarine base at Rybachiy in anti-drone defenses — satellite photos showing new netting and cages across berths 4,000 miles from Ukraine

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The U.S. executive order on nuclear just set a 4x target — pushing the country from 100 gigawatts of nuclear power today to 400 by 2050

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The Department of Energy just awarded $2.7 billion in contracts to restart domestic uranium enrichment — the biggest bet on U.S. nuclear fuel since the Cold War

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Amazon just reserved an entire nuclear plant in Pennsylvania for the next 17 years — locking in 2 gigawatts to power its hungriest AI data centers

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Three advanced U.S. reactors are racing to flip the switch before year-end — small modular plants built to quadruple the power pouring into the country’s AI server farms

By Everett Sloane

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The world’s biggest fusion reactor just got its 1,000-ton ‘beating heart’ — the U.S. just delivered the final piece of the magnet that will spark ITER into life

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Three U.S. startups are racing to switch on brand-new advanced reactors before year’s end — the opening push to quadruple America’s nuclear power

By Everett Sloane

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