February 2025

Nuclear Reactors 1468 - Canada Exploring The Commercialization Of Small Nuclear Reactor Designs

     Nuclear laboratories in Canada are interested in exploring the commercialization of small reactor designs. A Request for Expression of Interest (RFEOI) has been issued to test the market interest in licensing Atomic Energy of Canada Limited's (AECL) SLOWPOKE and Nuclear Battery reactor technologies for commercialization.

Nuclear Reactors 1467 - Virginia Considering Where To Build Small Modular Reactors - Part 2 of 2 Parts

Part 2 of 2 Parts (Please read Part 1 first)
     Wise County was one of the areas being considered for siting a small modular nuclear reactor after Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin announced in October of 2022 that he wanted to deploy the nation’s first SMR in the coalfields region of the state. This region was devastated by the ongoing downturn in the coal industry.

Nuclear Reactors 1466 - Virginia Considering Where To Build Small Modular Reactors - Part 1 of 2 Parts

Part 1 of 2 Parts
     Months ago, it was revealed that the state’s first small modular nuclear reactor would not be built in Southwest Virginia. Local officials are now pushing for a study on the feasibility of placing a smaller nuclear generator, a microreactor, in Wise County, Virginia.

Nuclear Fusion 106 - Commonwealth Fusion Systems Working On Adding Louvers To Tokamaks To Cool Plasma

     Decades of global, government-sponsored research in fusion science have established the tokamak-based reactor as the highest performing approach to fusion. In the past, tokamaks have had to be enormous in size to produce net energy from fusion.

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