All articles by Tracey Honney
Tracey Honney
NRC approves high burn-up fuel
The decision allows for higher burn-up limits, enabling nuclear plants to extract more energy from fuel assemblies while maintaining safety margins and reducing waste.
Turnkey reactors target lower costs
Blue Energy’s prefabricated reactor models aim to significantly cut costs and compress build timelines.
White House pushes lunar reactors
A new initiative aims to coordinate NASA’s efforts to deploy space-based reactors by the end of the decade.
Tokamak Energy wins STEP role
The deal runs to 2029 and will see Tokamak Energy deliver eight magnet work packages, supporting the UK’s push to develop next-generation fusion technology.
Thorizon broadens MSR coalition
The roadmap targets a phased rollout, starting with a non-nuclear test facility and a demonstrator at the Petten research site, followed by a 100 MWe commercial reactor in Zeeland by 2034.
New technology, new training
New nuclear technologies place new training requirements on the industry but as SMRs, Advanced Reactors and fusion emerge onto the stage, behind the scenes new training tools are also coming into play.
Kairos breaks ground on Hermes 2
Construction of Hermes 2 is part of a wider agreement between Kairos Power and Google to help supply low-carbon electricity for data centres.
Closing the circle
The UK has an investment fund whose proceeds will pay for decommissioning its reactors. The fund has become a key investor in Sizewell C. Is this a virtuous nuclear circle?
Inertia, LLNL team on laser fusion
The partnership combines joint research, manufacturing scale-up and patent licensing to help move LLNL’s fusion breakthroughs toward a grid-scale power plant.
Bruce Power aids Canada’s nuclear push
The partnerships aim to share operational expertise, project development experience, and regulatory knowledge as Saskatchewan and Alberta assess large-scale nuclear technologies alongside SMR programs.