Browsing: Nuclear and SMRs

South Korea won the first SMR design approval in 2012 but has no small modular reactor running. Data center demand and the IAEA meeting in Incheon raise the pressure.

Doosan Enerbility signed a deal on 29 October 2026 to make the first upper reactor pressure vessel module for NuScale, with no value or schedule disclosed.

SK Innovation outlined its K-Natrium plan at Smart Energy Plus 2026 on 28 October: TerraPower on design, KHNP on construction, SK on storage and generation.

Orlen will lead the planned BWRX-300 SMR at Włocławek while Synthos Green Energy leads Stawy Monowskie, under a new framework with the OSGE joint venture.

Linglong One, the 125 MWe ACP100 SMR on Hainan, is in hot functional testing about 63 months after first concrete, against a 58 month plan.

NuScale revenue fell to $75,000 in Q2 2026 from $8.05 million a year earlier, while net loss rose to $50.1 million against $1.9 billion in cash.

Indiana nuclear plans enter a study phase as AtkinsRéalis, the state and Hoosier Energy sign an MOU for up to eight CANDU units and 6 GW.

A Frontiers in Nuclear Engineering study sizes three SMR designs for 2,525 MW of Brazilian data center demand and puts natural uranium at 1,094 to 1,314 tonnes a year.

Global X launched an SMR ETF of about 15 companies whose top 10 holdings carry 97.8 percent of the weight, as the IEA scenario of 1,000 SMRs by 2050 would need about $670 billion of cumulative investment against about $5 billion a year now.

The European Investment Bank agreed up to €40 million in a convertible loan to Finland’s Steady Energy for its 50 MW thermal LDR-50 district heating reactor, its first SMR investment, with construction not due to start before 2029.