The UK government ruled on 2 October that LionLink’s rise from up to 1.8 GW to up to 2 GW does not change the project enough to vary its planning direction, which leaves the homes and savings claims still describing the smaller design.
DOE’s conditional loan of up to $4.2 billion is mostly a bill for keeping existing reactors running, and the release leaves out the numbers that would show how much.
DOE’s Office of Nuclear Energy opened up to $50 million over three years for 12 foot silicon carbide cladding rods, with applications due 7 December 2026.
DOE will put up to $150 million of Defense Production Act money into a 223 mile second link between Southcentral and Interior Alaska, against $268 million from non-federal sources.
A planned 220,000 tonne per year biomethanol facility in the Netherlands is being positioned around access to renewable hydrogen, highlighting how hydrogen demand could increasingly emerge from processes that combine biogenic carbon with additional low carbon hydrogen rather than from conventional hydrogen applications alone.
The commercial shipping industry is moving from conceptual studies toward route specific testing of nuclear propulsion, with Hyundai Glovis and U.S. logistics company Liberty Global Logistics (LGL) now examining whether a small modular reactor-powered Pure Car and Truck Carrier could operate between South Korea and the United States.
A planned 4 million tonnes per year of renewable hydrogen imports from North Africa is placing the SoutH2 Corridor among Europe’s largest proposed hydrogen infrastructure routes, but the latest political agreement also underscores how much work remains before that capacity can become a bankable supply chain.
The European Union used 12.2% recycled materials in 2024, the highest circular material use rate on record, but only marginally above the previous year and just one percentage point higher than in 2015.
