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Major Energy and Environmental News and Commentary affecting the Nuclear Industry.

Thursday, December 18, 2025

U.S. Plans $80 Billion Nuclear Power Expansion - IEEE Spectrum

U.S. Plans $80 Billion Nuclear Power Expansion - IEEE Spectrum

KAERI, Samsung Heavy win approval for floating nuclear reactor design

KAERI, Samsung Heavy win approval for floating nuclear reactor design

China adds new reactor to world’s most deployed nuclear fleet

China adds new reactor to world’s most deployed nuclear fleet

Small Modular Reactor - Holtec International

Small Modular Reactor - Holtec International

Diablo Canyon Coastal Commission Vote - Los Angeles Times

Diablo Canyon Coastal Commission Vote - Los Angeles Times

Here’s Trump’s Record on Gas Prices, Electricity Costs, Energy Production - Bloomberg

Here’s Trump’s Record on Gas Prices, Electricity Costs, Energy Production - Bloomberg

FERC is poised to act on co-location of electricity and data centers - E&E News by POLITICO

FERC is poised to act on co-location of electricity and data centers - E&E News by POLITICO

Speedy Investment Needed As Uranium Supply Faces Increasing Pressure, NEA Webinar Hears

Speedy Investment Needed As Uranium Supply Faces Increasing Pressure, NEA Webinar Hears

Time to go nuclear? Inside the battle to power AI | Reuters

Time to go nuclear? Inside the battle to power AI | Reuters

Radiant Nuclear raises $300M for its semi-sized 1 MW reactor | TechCrunch

Radiant Nuclear raises $300M for its semi-sized 1 MW reactor | TechCrunch

U.S. Plans $80 Billion Nuclear Power Expansion - IEEE Spectrum

U.S. Plans $80 Billion Nuclear Power Expansion - IEEE Spectrum

China exploits US-funded nuclear research, congressional report says | AP News

China exploits US-funded nuclear research, congressional report says | AP News

NRC Renews Operating Licenses for Clinton & Dresden; Constellation Investing $370 Million in State-of-the-Art Upgrades to Keep These Illinois Nuclear Facilities Online, Meet Rising Power Demand and Support Economic Growth

NRC Renews Operating Licenses for Clinton & Dresden; Constellation Investing $370 Million in State-of-the-Art Upgrades to Keep These Illinois Nuclear Facilities Online, Meet Rising Power Demand and Support Economic Growth

Understanding the NRC Independence Debate

Understanding the NRC Independence Debate

New role for nuclear power emerges in New York energy plan | Utility Dive

New role for nuclear power emerges in New York energy plan | Utility Dive

Beyond Cost Metrics: Recognize Value of Nuclear Energy | FTI

Beyond Cost Metrics: Recognize Value of Nuclear Energy | FTI

Wednesday, December 17, 2025

Ritter's Rant 065: Reaping the Whirlwind

Ritter's Rant 065: Reaping the Whirlwind

Office of Public Affairs | Engineer Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison for Bombings of PG&E Transformers, Causing Property Damage and Widespread Power Outages | United States Department of Justice

Office of Public Affairs | Engineer Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison for Bombings of PG&E Transformers, Causing Property Damage and Widespread Power Outages | United States Department of Justice

Norwegian towns take stakes in nuclear project company - World Nuclear News

Norwegian towns take stakes in nuclear project company - World Nuclear News

Permit issued for final Brunsbüttel dismantling work - World Nuclear News

Permit issued for final Brunsbüttel dismantling work - World Nuclear News

Holtec signs MoU for SMRs in Hungary - World Nuclear News

Holtec signs MoU for SMRs in Hungary - World Nuclear News

MIT professor Nuno Loureiro shot dead at his home

MIT professor Nuno Loureiro shot dead at his home

Working to eliminate barriers to adopting nuclear energy | MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Working to eliminate barriers to adopting nuclear energy | MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology

AI Is About to Transform Nuclear Energy, and the United States Isn’t Ready - The National Interest

AI Is About to Transform Nuclear Energy, and the United States Isn’t Ready - The National Interest

Reviving Nuclear Power | RealClearEnergy

Reviving Nuclear Power | RealClearEnergy

Time to Build Reactors Fueled By Nuclear Waste | RealClearEnergy

Time to Build Reactors Fueled By Nuclear Waste | RealClearEnergy

Asia Is Going Nuclear and the United States Should Help | RealClearDefense

Asia Is Going Nuclear and the United States Should Help | RealClearDefense

Nuclear startup Last Energy raises $100M for its steel-encased micro reactor | TechCrunch

Nuclear startup Last Energy raises $100M for its steel-encased micro reactor | TechCrunch

Senators Investigate Role of A.I. Data Centers in Rising Electricity Costs - The New York Times

Senators Investigate Role of A.I. Data Centers in Rising Electricity Costs - The New York Times

Thea Energy reveals Helios fusion plant design for 390 megawatt output

Thea Energy reveals Helios fusion plant design for 390 megawatt output

Israeli scientists unveil breakthrough in fusion energy | The Jerusalem Post

Israeli scientists unveil breakthrough in fusion energy | The Jerusalem Post

Officials unveil plans for first-of-its-kind nuclear facility on US soil: 'Leading the nation'

Officials unveil plans for first-of-its-kind nuclear facility on US soil: 'Leading the nation'

Tuesday, December 16, 2025

E3 - Energy and Environmental Economics, Inc.

E3 - Energy and Environmental Economics, Inc.

DOE Unleashes Nuclear and AI Spending Spree to Fuel U.S. Tech Dominance - MyChesCo

DOE Unleashes Nuclear and AI Spending Spree to Fuel U.S. Tech Dominance - MyChesCo

US regulator extends life of TVA nuclear plant to 80 years | Chattanooga Times Free Press

US regulator extends life of TVA nuclear plant to 80 years | Chattanooga Times Free Press

Who Authorizes New Nuclear Reactors in the United States? - The National Interest

Who Authorizes New Nuclear Reactors in the United States? - The National Interest

Construction starts on sixth Ningde unit - World Nuclear News

Construction starts on sixth Ningde unit - World Nuclear News

Diablo Canyon gets key state approval -- ANS / Nuclear Newswire

Diablo Canyon gets key state approval -- ANS / Nuclear Newswire

FERC poised to issue decision on colocating large loads in PJM | Utility Dive

FERC poised to issue decision on colocating large loads in PJM | Utility Dive

Samsung wins ABS approval for floating nuclear vessel concept | Upstream

Samsung wins ABS approval for floating nuclear vessel concept | Upstream

Nuclear Industry to Add 15 Reactors in 2026 After Capacity Shrinks in 2025 - Bloomberg

Nuclear Industry to Add 15 Reactors in 2026 After Capacity Shrinks in 2025 - Bloomberg

How MPEX will accelerate fusion energy

How MPEX will accelerate fusion energy

Watch US Power Shortage: How Small Modular Nuclear Reactors Could Fill the Gap - Bloomberg

Watch US Power Shortage: How Small Modular Nuclear Reactors Could Fill the Gap - Bloomberg

SLO County CA study examines nuclear SMRs at Diablo Canyon | San Luis Obispo Tribune

SLO County CA study examines nuclear SMRs at Diablo Canyon | San Luis Obispo Tribune

Nuclear Industry to Add 15 Reactors in 2026 After Capacity Shrinks in 2025 - Bloomberg

Nuclear Industry to Add 15 Reactors in 2026 After Capacity Shrinks in 2025 - Bloomberg

DOE using its own land to help pair AI centers, nuclear reactors - Roll Call

DOE using its own land to help pair AI centers, nuclear reactors - Roll Call

Lawmakers push new bill showing Democrats, GOP support fusion energy

Lawmakers push new bill showing Democrats, GOP support fusion energy

Clean, Limitless Energy Exists. China Is Going Big in the Race to Harness It. - The New York Times

Clean, Limitless Energy Exists. China Is Going Big in the Race to Harness It. - The New York Times

Opinion – Relicensing Diablo Canyon Puts It in Good Company | Neutron Bytes

Opinion – Relicensing Diablo Canyon Puts It in Good Company | Neutron Bytes

Reviving Nuclear Power | RealClearEnergy

Reviving Nuclear Power | RealClearEnergy

Time to Build Reactors Fueled By Nuclear Waste | RealClearEnergy

Time to Build Reactors Fueled By Nuclear Waste | RealClearEnergy

Asia Is Going Nuclear and the United States Should Help | RealClearDefense

Asia Is Going Nuclear and the United States Should Help | RealClearDefense

Electricity Is Holding Back Growth Across the Global Economy - Bloomberg

Electricity Is Holding Back Growth Across the Global Economy - Bloomberg

Clean, Limitless Energy Exists. China Is Going Big in the Race to Harness It. - The New York Times

Clean, Limitless Energy Exists. China Is Going Big in the Race to Harness It. - The New York Times

Google Boss on the AI Problem | RealClearEnergy

Google Boss on the AI Problem | RealClearEnergy

The Socialist Case for Nuclear Power | RealClearEnergy

The Socialist Case for Nuclear Power | RealClearEnergy

Monday, December 15, 2025

"Nuclear Powered Artificial Intelligence (AI): Small Modular Reactors as an Emerging Power Source for AI Data Centers" | Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, LLP - JDSupra

"Nuclear Powered Artificial Intelligence (AI): Small Modular Reactors as an Emerging Power Source for AI Data Centers" | Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, LLP - JDSupra

Diablo Canyon Agrees to Coastal Commission Land Use Plan | Neutron Bytes

Diablo Canyon Agrees to Coastal Commission Land Use Plan | Neutron Bytes

Opinion – Relicensing Diablo Canyon Puts It in Good Company | Neutron Bytes

Opinion – Relicensing Diablo Canyon Puts It in Good Company | Neutron Bytes

Funding For Fusion Energy Jumped By 30% From June-Sept, With US And China Dominating

Funding For Fusion Energy Jumped By 30% From June-Sept, With US And China Dominating

Clean, Limitless Energy Exists. China Is Going Big in the Race to Harness It. - The New York Times

Clean, Limitless Energy Exists. China Is Going Big in the Race to Harness It. - The New York Times

China Forms a 10-Nation Fusion Energy Alliance - Heatmap News

China Forms a 10-Nation Fusion Energy Alliance - Heatmap News

Home Of The Worst Nuclear Disaster In US History Will Now Power AI

Home Of The Worst Nuclear Disaster In US History Will Now Power AI

Data centers need electricity fast, but utilities need years to build power plants – who should pay?

Data centers need electricity fast, but utilities need years to build power plants – who should pay?

Is Nuclear Power 100% Clean? Here's What You Should Know

Is Nuclear Power 100% Clean? Here's What You Should Know

UK scientists' new facility to boost fusion effort for clean energy goal

UK scientists' new facility to boost fusion effort for clean energy goal

Why fast-tracking transmission is permitting reform’s biggest hurdle | Latitude Media

Why fast-tracking transmission is permitting reform’s biggest hurdle | Latitude Media

Nuclear Power Plants: Mitigating Delay Risks | Energy Intelligence

Nuclear Power Plants: Mitigating Delay Risks | Energy Intelligence

Nuclear Startup Announces Kansas Site for Mile-Deep Reactor Pilot

Nuclear Startup Announces Kansas Site for Mile-Deep Reactor Pilot

US firm accelerates critical material development for nuclear fusion with ORNL deal

US firm accelerates critical material development for nuclear fusion with ORNL deal

US firm nears first Gen IV reactor deployment, targets SMRs for gigawatts of power

US firm nears first Gen IV reactor deployment, targets SMRs for gigawatts of power

Crunching the numbers on opposition to FERC’s large load docket | Latitude Media

Crunching the numbers on opposition to FERC’s large load docket | Latitude Media

Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant secures 20-year license extension, ensuring power and jobs in North Alabama | rocketcitynow.com

Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant secures 20-year license extension, ensuring power and jobs in North Alabama | rocketcitynow.com

New Brunswick may be getting another nuclear reactor | Telegraph-Journal

New Brunswick may be getting another nuclear reactor | Telegraph-Journal

Creekstone Energy studying nuclear power to support world's largest data center campus in Utah | KSL.com

Creekstone Energy studying nuclear power to support world's largest data center campus in Utah | KSL.com

Podcast: What happened with nuclear energy at COP30? - World Nuclear News

Podcast: What happened with nuclear energy at COP30? - World Nuclear News

Hanford vitrifies nuclear waste, cleaning up its atomic legacy.

Hanford vitrifies nuclear waste, cleaning up its atomic legacy.

Supercomputer ushers in new era of nuclear AI

Supercomputer ushers in new era of nuclear AI

Sunday, December 14, 2025

Google, NextEra to Revive Iowa Nuclear Plant for AI Data Centers

Google, NextEra to Revive Iowa Nuclear Plant for AI Data Centers

AI and Supercomputing Are Transforming Nuclear Power Licensing in the United States | The Ritz Herald

AI and Supercomputing Are Transforming Nuclear Power Licensing in the United States | The Ritz Herald

Utah firm pursuing plan to import 1.31M cubic yards of low-level Canadian radioactive waste | KSL.com

Utah firm pursuing plan to import 1.31M cubic yards of low-level Canadian radioactive waste | KSL.com

NRC Greenlights 20-Year License Renewal for TVA’s Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant | American Public Power Association

NRC Greenlights 20-Year License Renewal for TVA’s Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant | American Public Power Association

Actions to Address Executive Order 14300: Reforming the Nuclear Regulatory Commission – Clean Air Task Force

Actions to Address Executive Order 14300: Reforming the Nuclear Regulatory Commission – Clean Air Task Force

Data centers for AI could nearly triple San José’s energy use. Who foots the bill? - Los Angeles Times

Data centers for AI could nearly triple San José’s energy use. Who foots the bill? - Los Angeles Times

Knoxville, Nashville, and Louisville Unite for Inaugural Tri-City

Knoxville, Nashville, and Louisville Unite for Inaugural Tri-City

AI and Supercomputing Are Transforming Nuclear Power Licensing in the United States | The Ritz Herald

AI and Supercomputing Are Transforming Nuclear Power Licensing in the United States | The Ritz Herald

Atomic Canyon Teams Up with California's Diablo Canyon to

Atomic Canyon Teams Up with California's Diablo Canyon to

Controversial Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant takes big step forward towards staying in operation for an additional five years | Video | actionnewsnow.com

Controversial Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant takes big step forward towards staying in operation for an additional five years | Video | actionnewsnow.com

Land-For-Nuke Deal: CA's Last Nuclear Energy Plant To Keep Churning | Rohnert Park, CA Patch

Land-For-Nuke Deal: CA's Last Nuclear Energy Plant To Keep Churning | Rohnert Park, CA Patch

Diablo Canyon power plant

Diablo Canyon power plant

Environmental Groups Condemn CA Coastal Commission Decision to Extend Diablo Canyon Nuclear Plant for Another 20 Years - edhat

Environmental Groups Condemn CA Coastal Commission Decision to Extend Diablo Canyon Nuclear Plant for Another 20 Years - edhat

Diablo Canyon Clears Hurdle to Stay Open Until at Least 2030 - The Santa Barbara Independent

Diablo Canyon Clears Hurdle to Stay Open Until at Least 2030 - The Santa Barbara Independent

China and US Are Global Leaders in Fusion Funding -

https://neutronbytes.com/2025/12/14/china-and-us-are-global-leaders-in-fusion-funding/

Opinion – Relicensing Diablo Canyon Puts It in Good Company | Neutron Bytes

Opinion – Relicensing Diablo Canyon Puts It in Good Company | Neutron Bytes

Diablo Canyon Agrees to Coastal Commission Land Use Plan -

https://neutronbytes.com/2025/12/14/diablo-canyon-agrees-to-coastal-commission-land-use-plan/

The Nativity isn’t cute or cozy. It should scandalize us. - America Magazine

The Nativity isn’t cute or cozy. It should scandalize us. - America Magazine

US firm eyes gigawatts of nuclear power with first Gen IV reactors

US firm eyes gigawatts of nuclear power with first Gen IV reactors

US firm accelerates nuclear fusion material development with ORNL deal

US firm accelerates nuclear fusion material development with ORNL deal

What Can the U.S. Learn from Chinese… | The Breakthrough Institute

What Can the U.S. Learn from Chinese… | The Breakthrough Institute

How the US learned to stop worrying and accept North Korea's bomb - Nikkei Asia

How the US learned to stop worrying and accept North Korea's bomb - Nikkei Asia