Browsing: Nuclear and SMRs

The Environment Agency issued a variation on 6 October that adds 37 smaller backup generators at Hinkley Point C, caps all of them at 500 operating hours a year and raises permitted thermal input by about 67 MWth to about 243 MWth.

Seven reactors appeared in three NRC filings published in the Federal Register on 8 and 9 October, but they sit at very different stages: a draft environmental review, a docketed application and a first filing.

Poland adopted its updated nuclear programme on 29 September, but the 2036 date for the first unit had been in official documents since March 2025; the risk now sits in the permit and 2028 first concrete.

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.

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.

The NRC proposed changes to nine parts of 10 CFR on reactor licensing, decommissioning and oversight. Comments on Docket NRC-2025-1138 are due 9 November 2026.

The NRC issued the Clinch River BWRX-300 construction permit 447 days after accepting the application, with the final safety evaluation about 129 to 158 days before the staff’s own July 2025 plan. IAEA data still list no US reactor under construction.

South Korea’s newly launched public-private SMR effort targets commercializing domestic light-water reactors by 2035, with construction of non-light-water designs not…

Ontario Power Generation’s final investment decision for the first BWRX-300 at its Darlington site put the cost of that single…