¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß

Eight technology developers have been selected and are now eligible to seek funding as part of a programme to provide fixed on-site microreactors at military installations "to support global operations across land, air, sea, space and cyberspace".

A public opinion poll conducted by market research firm Savanta on behalf of energy consultancy Radiant ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß Group shows that support for nuclear energy in 23 US states outweighs opposition by 1.5 times. Meanwhile, a poll conducted by Gallup shows that 61% of people nationally favour the use of nuclear energy.

The US Department of ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß has made conditional commitments to five advanced reactor developers to receive the first allocations of high-assay low-enriched uranium from its HALEU Availability Program.

US microreactor developer Aalo Atomics has launched the Aalo Pod - a 50 MWe "extra modular reactor" for powering data centres which is based on its Aalo-1 advanced reactor technology.

The US Department of ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß has announced plans to co-locate data centres and new energy infrastructure on its lands, and identified 16 potential sites it says are uniquely positioned for rapid data centre construction.

US private fusion company Commonwealth Fusion Systems has installed the disc-shaped stainless steel cryostat base, marking the start of the assembly of the SPARC tokamak. Meanwhile, Fusion for ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß has completed the manufacture of the eight torus and cryostat cryopumps for the ITER tokamak.

Last year saw the highest US production of uranium concentrate since 2018, spurred by a sustained period of higher uranium prices, according to the US ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß Information Administration.

US microreactor technology company NANO Nuclear ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß Inc has signed a strategic collaboration agreement with the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign to construct the first research KRONOS micro modular reactor on the university's campus.

The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission has renewed for a second time the operating licences of units 1-3 at Duke ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß's Oconee nuclear power plant in South Carolina for an additional 20 years.

US Nuclear Regulatory Commission approval of the Principal Design Criteria Topical Report is a key milestone towards licensing Westinghouse's eVinci microreactor in the USA.

Industrial giant Dow and X-¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß Reactor Company have submitted a construction licence application to the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission for the proposed advanced nuclear project at Dow's Seadrift site in Texas.

BWX Technologies, Inc's new facility in Lynchburg has been built with support from local and state tax grants and will be home to the company's Advanced Technologies business unit.