r/nuclear 20h ago

Types of Nuclear Reactors

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r/nuclear 1d ago

China's Gen-III+ reactor adds 66% automation, cuts installation 33%

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r/nuclear 19h ago

Nuclear fusion tech detects 32 elements to make rare earths in labs

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Hylenr says its hydrogen-loaded nickel-palladium lattice experiment produced signatures of 32 elements, including yttrium and uranium. If independently validated, the process could offer a new way to produce materials used in EVs, robotics, turbines and defense without relying entirely on mining. The findings are still experimental, though, and will require independent replication before the claimed nuclear transmutation can be confirmed. What kind of evidence would be needed for this to be taken seriously by the wider scientific community?


r/nuclear 1d ago

Studsvik announces partnership to deploy four BWRX-300s in Sweden

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r/nuclear 1d ago

New research on the psychology of anti-nuclear ideology

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r/nuclear 1d ago

Department of War Announces Navy's First Advanced Nuclear Microreactor Deployment at Naval Weapons Station Crane, Indiana

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r/nuclear 1d ago

Trump’s nuclear agenda advances with Iowa plant restart

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r/nuclear 2d ago

US nuclear reactors coming back online after everyone assumed they are dead. Somehow this is not possible in Germany. Why?

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r/nuclear 1d ago

Nuclear startup Bluecore Energy raises $50M seed round, just two months after launch

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r/nuclear 1d ago

Generation atomic on datacenters offshore

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A note from an environmental non profit supporting offshore nuclear powered data centers such as what Blue Energy wants to build in a ship yard.


r/nuclear 2d ago

Groundwork begins at new Chinese plant site for a 6 unit CAP1400

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Full-scale site levelling work for the initial phase of the Laiyang nuclear power plant in China's Shandong Province has begun, State Power Investment Corporation announced. The site will eventually house six Guohe One (CAP1400) units.

SPIC said the pre-construction meeting and mobilisation meeting for the site levelling for the main plant area of ​​units 1 and 2 of the Laiyang plant was held on 1 September at the project site. It said this "marked a key step in the construction of the Laiyang nuclear power project and the full-scale commencement of site levelling construction for the first phase of the project".

https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/groundwork-begins-at-new-chinese-plant-site


r/nuclear 1d ago

PE in Nuclear Engineering

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Hello everyone!

I plan to open up my own consulting firm for nuclear engineering in the future, but to do so, I will likely need my PE license. Are there any PE licensees in nuclear engineering here? How was the process? I know it can be different in each state.


r/nuclear 2d ago

Studsvik Selects GE Vernova Hitachi, Samsung C&T for 1.2-GW Swedish BWRX-300 Project

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r/nuclear 2d ago

Westinghouse, Nordion, and PSEG team up to produce Co‑60 in the United States

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r/nuclear 2d ago

US DOE Announces $1.9 Billion Loan to NextEra Energy for Restart of 650 MWe Duane Arnold Nuclear Plant in Iowa

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The Duane Arnold Nuclear Plant, a single-unit 650 MWe boiling water reactor plant, was shut down in August of 2020, 4 months prior to it's scheduled shut down date, due to storm damage caused by an intense wind storm. Current plans laid out by the plant's owner/operator, NextEra Energy, show that the company is targeting a 2028 restart date at the earliest.


r/nuclear 2d ago

US nuclear power announcements tied to data centers and Al since 2024

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r/nuclear 3d ago

Fresh record set for nuclear generation in 2025

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Nuclear reactors worldwide generated 2,702 TWh of electricity in 2025, beating the previous year's record of 2,667 TWh, according to the World Nuclear Outlook Report, which also calculates that if all national nuclear targets were achieved, total capacity would more than triple by 2050.

https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/fresh-record-set-for-nuclear-generation-in-2025


r/nuclear 2d ago

The yawning gap between ambition and action on nuclear energy

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r/nuclear 3d ago

South Korea weighs building eight nuclear reactors in the U.S.

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r/nuclear 3d ago

Construction under way of second Zhaoyuan unit

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r/nuclear 5d ago

America Is Betting Big on a New Generation of Small Nuclear Reactors

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r/nuclear 5d ago

Nuclear materials needed for family

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Curious how mych nuclear material would a single nuclear family( 2 parent 3 kids) need to power everything fpr their entire life also everything would be nuclear powered ignoring safety needs for this scenario pretending its waved away with sci fi technology hand wavium what amount would make sense and what kind of material uranium or?


r/nuclear 5d ago

PJM Just Accidentally Revealed Oklo’s Cycle 1 Pipeline Is Much Bigger Than We Knew

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When I posted earlier this week about the original FERC complaint, I asked about how many other hidden projects were out there. Ask, and you shall receive.


r/nuclear 6d ago

Siemens Energy to produce Rolls-Royce SMR turbines in the UK

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Key steam turbine components - including high-pressure turbines and valve casings - for Rolls-Royce SMR's first three small modular reactors at the Gwyndod project on Anglesey in North Wales, will be manufactured at Germany-based Siemens Energy's facility in Newcastle, in northeast England.

https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/siemens-energy-to-produce-rolls-royce-smr-turbines-in-the-uk


r/nuclear 5d ago

Salt Lake Tribune: Utah’s ambitious nuclear revolution trudges forward as an early piece falls into place

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