Vol. 19, No. 20 
House Appropriations Committee passes energy and water bill
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Advanced Nuclear & SMRs
NextEra to buy Dominion Energy; creating major nuke-owning power company
NextEra’s proposed purchase of Dominion Energy would create a nuclear power giant, with eight active plants between the utilities and a nith that might be restarted. NextEra said on Monday that it will purchase Dominion Energy for nearly $67 billion to combine two of the largest utilities in the United States. According to the companies’ […]
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Reactor Licensing & Regulation
One year ago: A look back on Trump’s executive order to reform NRC
This weekend, Saturday May 23 to be exact, marks the one-year anniversary of President Donald Trump’s Executive Order 14300, which sought to overhaul the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The May 2025 executive action took the industry by storm as it called for the nuclear regulator to undergo various changes to accelerate nuclear licensing and deployment in […]
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Reactor Licensing & Regulation
Senate reconfirms NRC’s Weaver in en bloc package of Trump nominees
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s Doug Weaver was reconfirmed by the Senate Monday to serve a full five-year term as a commissioner that will expire in June 2031. Weaver was confirmed alongside nearly 50 of President Donald Trump’s other nominees in the en bloc package, Senate Resolution 690, spearheaded by the Republicans. The nominees’ confirmation passed […]
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Uranium Enrichment & Fuel Cycle
Credible nuclear development is contingent on a credible fuel strategy, panel says
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Hopes of building multiple new reactors in the United States are anchored in a strong supply chain, with a key focus on uranium enrichment, a panel of nuclear experts told a Senate subcommittee Wednesday. During the hearing by the Senate Environment and Public Works Subcommittee on Clean Air, Climate and Nuclear Innovation […]
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Advanced Nuclear & SMRs
NRC completes X-Energy’s environmental review for Texas SMR project
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has found no significant impact in the environmental assessment of Dow and X-Energy’s construction permit application for their Texas small modular reactor (SMR) station. NRC said on Monday the environmental assessment was completed ahead of schedule. It also determined an environmental assessment was sufficient for X-Energy’s Texas project than an […]
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Advanced Nuclear & SMRs
The time for nuclear investment has come, Gallego says
WASHINGTON, D.C. – In a time of growing energy demand, investment in nuclear power can be important to the economic future of the United States, Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) said last week. Gallego told the Nuclear Energy Institute’s Policy Forum May 12-13 that getting the right mix of nuclear energy in the domestic energy portfolio […]
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Advanced Nuclear & SMRs
DARPA awards $1.5 million to City Labs for nuclear battery technology
Miami-based tritium nuclear technology developer City Labs has been awarded a $1.5 million contract by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the company said this week. City Labs said in a press release the funding, under DARPA’s Rads to Watts program, will support the development of a new class of high-power radiation voltaics energy […]
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Budget & Policy
GOP incumbents around INL, Paducah Site coast through primaries
Republican incumbents easily won their party primaries Tuesday in Idaho, where the Department of Energy’s Idaho National Laboratory (INL) is based. Meanwhile in Kentucky, the GOP House of Representatives member representing DOE’s Paducah Site also won his primary easily. Longtime House Appropriations Committee member and INL backer Rep. Mike Simpson (R-Idaho) carried more than 63% […]
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Advanced Nuclear & SMRs
NRC accepts NANO Nuclear’s university microreactor for review
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has accepted the NANO Nuclear’s KRONOS microreactor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in Illinois for review on Tuesday. The Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, NANO’s partner for the reactor deployment, submitted the application on March 31. The university’s engineering department is NANO’s partner for the […]
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Uranium Enrichment & Fuel Cycle
Round Up: TNC launches nuclear security platform; Indiana bids to become NRC agreement state; New nuclear fuel recycling company emerges and more
The Nuclear Company has launched a next-generation nuclear security platform called NOS Security this week that would modernize protection of nuclear infrastructure, construction sites and operating facilities across the United States and allied nations. NOS Security, developed over the past year, is an integrated cyber-security platform for the nuclear industry, The Nuclear Company said in […]