The United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) and the US Department of Energy's (DoE's) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have just entered into a strategic research partnership. The purpose of the partnership is to better understand the performance and behavior of materials required for use in commercial fusion power plants.
Xcel Energy Inc. is a U.S. regulated electric utility and natural gas delivery company based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, serving more than three million seven hundred thousand electric customers and two million natural gas customers across parts of eight states (Colorado, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, North Dakota, South Dakota, Texas and New Mexico).
New Brunswick (NB) Power in Canada will soon apply to the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) in preparation for small modular reactors (SMR) at the Point Lepreau Nuclear Generating Station in Charlotte County.
Canadian-German nuclear technology company Dual Fluid Energy Inc. has just signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Canadian research center Tri-University Meson Facility (TRIUMF) at the University of British Columbia to advance development of a small modular reactor based on Dual Fluid Energy technology.
Energy consultants Equilibrion and the Nuclear Industry Association (NIA) just issued a report titled Synthetic Fuels: The Opportunity for Economy Scale Production of Synthetic Fuels from Nuclear Energy that said that large-scale production of nuclear derived net-zero synthetic fuels could help hard-to-decarbonize sectors such as aviation and shipping.