This past week has enjoyed an absolute flood of nuclear headlines. Mostly good, but a couple sour apples that need to be closely watched.
I gathered them into a list for everybody ICYMI:
• IAEA sees as many as 1,000 SMRs by 2060.
• IAEA Red Book highlights significant uranium resources but poor mine development.
• The Army is going to help the Navy with putting a land-based reactor at a base in Indiana.
• Saudi Arabia claims over 100 million tons of uranium under their feet.
• Nusano provided some details for its NELP project with HALEU.
• Deep Fission saw their NSDA approved by the DOE.
• Antares won a $161 million contract with DOD for space applications.
• Westinghouse's eVinci microreactor completed additional criticality testing.
• NRC chairman says their licensing overhaul is going to run well into next year.
• Cameco says they'll offtake everything GLE has to offer from Paducah.
• Blue Energy filed the first part of a construction permit for their Texas gas-to-nuclear project.
• Holtec put their IPO plans on hold, citing poor market conditions.
• Antares signed an agreement with Centrus Energy for HALEU.
• Deep Fission enjoyed success with a canister demo.
• West Virginia joined the NLIC list of hopefuls.
• Bechtel and TerraPower partnership shows signs of trouble.
• X-energy entered their Xe-100 SMR into the UK GDA.