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…
South Korea’s nuclear industry is moving deeper into TerraPower’s commercial strategy just as the U.S. developer crosses the most important threshold yet for its Natrium advanced reactor: construction.
A proposed 100 MWe sodium cooled fast reactor is moving into a more detailed development phase in the United States, as ARC Clean Technology and Battelle Energy Alliance, the operator of Idaho National Laboratory, establish a framework covering the engineering, testing and potential first of a kind deployment of ARC’s ARC-100 reactor.
Canada’s first commercial small modular reactor is already under construction at Ontario Power Generation’s Darlington site, positioning the country among the global leaders in next generation nuclear deployment.
TerraPower’s Natrium reactor received NRC construction approval in March 2026, the first commercial-scale next-generation nuclear plant to achieve that milestone…
