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Russia's Rosatom is planning a large-scale used nuclear fuel reprocessing plant with an initial capacity of 400 tonnes per year, with investment feasibility and site selection studies underway and a decision expected by the end of 2026. The plant, described as the largest spent nuclear fuel reprocessing facility in Russia, would be designed with modularity to allow future capacity expansion and aims to reach full capacity within a decade. Rosatom framed the project as both a domestic environmental solution and a geopolitical opportunity, noting that global reserves of spent nuclear fuel have reached 360,000 tonnes. Russia's active construction of reactors abroad creates a strategic opening to expand its role in the global nuclear solutions market.

The foreign ministers of the United States, South Korea, and Japan signed a memorandum of cooperation on small modular reactor deployment on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, South Korean Foreign Minister Cho Hyun, and Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi agreed the three allies will work together to provide competitive nuclear energy options in the Asia-Pacific region and beyond. The agreement positions the U.S.-South Korea-Japan alliance as a coordinated force in third-country SMR markets, where China and Russia have long used state-backed reactor exports as instruments of geopolitical influence. All three countries have significant nuclear technology capabilities and growing domestic reactor programs of their own.

Energy development platform @gridmarket has partnered with Houston-based microreactor firm @DeployableE to target the deployment of 500 MW of nuclear capacity per year from 2030 to 2035, potentially delivering more than 3 GW of capacity to the data center sector over that period. GridMarket will connect its pipeline of deployment-ready sites to Deployable Energy's Unity Nuclear Battery, a 1 MWe gas-cooled microreactor designed to be transported in a standard 20-foot container and deployed in arrays. Deployable Energy was selected for the DOE's Nuclear Energy Launch Pad program earlier this year and reported that its test reactor at Idaho National Laboratory achieved criticality earlier this month.

The United States leads the world in small modular reactor development with 28 siting announcements as of 2026, more than the next four countries combined, according to data from the Nuclear Energy Agency. Within the U.S., national laboratories account for the most siting announcements at seven, followed by a three-way tie among utilities, universities, and SMR developers at five each. Canada follows with nine announcements and the UK with seven, ahead of Russia, China, Finland, France, and Poland with four each. The NEA is currently tracking 129 SMR designs globally, though only 78 are publicly reported in its digital dashboard.

enCore Energy's Dewey Burdock In-Situ Recovery Uranium Project in South Dakota has completed the federal permitting process after the NRC issued a 20-year renewal of its source materials licence. The Bureau of Land Management has also authorized the start of construction on portions of bureau-managed public lands within the project area, which covers 10,580 acres. The project was approved in August 2025 for inclusion in the Federal Permitting Improvement Steering Council's FAST-41 program, which provides accelerated permitting review for critical mineral projects. Permitting Council Executive Director Emily Domenech noted that increasing domestic uranium production is critical to national security and energy dominance ahead of growing nuclear deployment. enCore will now pursue state permitting with South Dakota before the project can proceed to full operational status.

Urenco USA has brought its fifth new enrichment cascade online at its National Enrichment Facility in Eunice, New Mexico, continuing an expansion program that began in 2025 to install 700,000 separative work units of additional capacity by early 2027. The facility is currently the only commercial uranium enrichment plant in the United States. Existing annual capacity is 4.3 million SWU, which accounts for about a third of current U.S. demand. In 2029, Urenco USA plans to begin construction of a new 2.1 million SWU plant at the site, with first production expected in 2032 and additional cascades installed through 2036. Installed capacity at the facility will grow to more than 7 million SWU over the next ten years.

Unit 2 at China General Nuclear's Taipingling nuclear power plant in Guangdong province achieved first criticality on June 25, marking the start of the reactor's commissioning phase ahead of grid connection. Taipingling Unit 1 entered commercial operation in April after achieving first criticality in February, making Unit 2 the second of six planned Hualong One reactors at the site to progress through commissioning. Construction of units 3 and 4 is underway, with unit 3 breaking ground in June 2025 and unit 4's first nuclear safety-related concrete poured last month. Once all six units are complete, the plant will generate more than 55 billion kilowatt-hours annually, reducing coal consumption by approximately 16.65 million tonnes.

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U.S. uranium production more than doubled in 2025, the highest output in nine years. Exploration and development drilling also reached their highest levels since 2013. Production came from one underground mine and seven in-situ recovery operations, with five additional ISR plants on standby and seven more planned across South Dakota, Texas, and Wyoming. The rebound reflects sustained policy focus on domestic fuel supply security. U.S. production fell so low in 2020 that individual company figures were withheld to protect competitive data, leaving reactor operators almost entirely dependent on imported uranium.

Last week Valar Atomics has become the second company to achieve zero-power criticality under the DOE's Reactor Pilot Program. The program requires at least three advanced reactor designs to achieve criticality by July 4, 2026 — with Antares Nuclear's Mark-0 reactor having reached the milestone earlier this month. The 5 MW Ward 250 is a TRISO-fuelled, helium-cooled, graphite-moderated reactor capable of powering approximately 5,000 homes. It was airlifted by U.S. Air Force C-17 from California to its Utah test site in February, the first-ever airlift of a small reactor aboard a military cargo plane.

Nuclear developer Elementl Power has signed an Early Works Agreement with GE Vernova Hitachi Nuclear Energy to deploy five BWRX-300 small modular reactors at a 700-acre site in Meigs County, southeast Ohio. The project is targeting a total capacity of 1.5 GW. @ElementlPower, which describes itself as a technology-agnostic advanced nuclear developer, says the project would be privately financed. The company is backed by Google, which provided early-stage capital in May 2025 to prepare three U.S. sites for advanced nuclear projects, with the option for commercial offtake once projects are complete.

The U.S. Department of @Energy has announced $17.5 billion in loans to support the construction of 10 large nuclear reactors. The funds will be used across five projects, each hosting two Westinghouse AP1000 units capable of generating 1.1 gigawatts of electricity. Energy Secretary Chris Wright said the financing will lower construction costs and accelerate deployment by up to three years by funding complex, long-lead components that typically take years to manufacture and deliver. @WECNuclear has already signed letters of intent with seven potential partners at identified sites, though the DOE has not disclosed locations. The Trump administration anticipates that major technology companies will sign long-term power purchase agreements with the projects to support construction.

This week Canada released a national nuclear strategy targeting the construction of up to 10 new reactors over the next 15 years. The plan has construction starting on two large-scale reactors by 2035, five more planned or under development by 2040, and at least one reactor under construction outside Ontario by 2035. The plan also calls for doubling uranium exports and positions Candu reactor sales as a geopolitical instrument for building multi-decade partnerships with allied and emerging nuclear nations. Energy Minister Tim Hodgson framed the plan as a "new civilian nuclear renaissance," saying there is no credible path to doubling Canada's grid capacity by 2050 without nuclear energy. Canada currently generates about 15% of its electricity from nuclear across four plants.

Yesterday @Walmart announced that the company has signed a 15-year nuclear power purchase agreement with @ConstellationEG. The deal will supply approximately 176 megawatts of electricity from the Dresden Clean Energy Center in Illinois to a new high-tech perishable distribution center in Belvidere, Illinois. The deal is among the first between a major U.S. retailer and a nuclear energy provider, underscoring growing corporate interest in baseload clean power. The agreement will also support efficiency uprates at Dresden, allowing the plant to increase output without building new generation capacity.

The @NRCgov has approved an 80-year operating life for Georgia Power's Edwin I. Hatch nuclear plant, extending licenses for both boiling water reactor units into the mid-2050s. It will provide 1.8 gigawatts of clean power to the grid for another 20 years. The NRC completed its safety and environmental review in under 12 months, the second license renewal completed within the 12-month target established under Executive Order 14300. Hatch Unit 1 was the first nuclear power plant in Georgia when it entered service in 1975. Together with the four-unit Vogtle plant, Hatch provides nearly 30% of Georgia Power's overall energy production for a state whose population has more than doubled since the plant came online.

Saskatchewan and the Czech Republic have signed a MOU to cooperate on small modular reactors and micro modular reactors. Saskatchewan is home to the world's largest and highest-grade uranium mines and is working alongside the Canadian provinces of Ontario, New Brunswick, and Alberta on SMR deployment under a joint strategic plan. The Czech Republic currently generates about one-third of its electricity from nuclear and has selected Rolls-Royce SMR to deploy up to 3 GW of new capacity, with state utility ČEZ taking a 20% stake in Rolls-Royce SMR.

Swedish utility Vattenfall has selected Rolls-Royce SMR to supply small modular reactors for a new nuclear power project. The three reactors, at 470 MW each, would produce approximately 12 terawatt hours of electricity per year. This would equate around 6% of Sweden's annual power consumption. The project will be built at the site of the existing Ringhals nuclear facility in southwest Sweden. A first reactor could enter operation in the mid-2030s.

Earlier this week, @oklo and @standardnuclear have formed a strategic alliance to collaborate on nuclear fuel recycling and advanced fuel manufacturing. The partnership represents Oklo's first third-party offtake pathway for recycled materials from used nuclear fuel. Under the MOU, the companies will explore commercial terms for recycled material streams from Oklo's planned fuel recycling facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, including reprocessed uranium and uranium-transuranic material that could serve as feedstock for Standard Nuclear's TRISO fuel manufacturing. The two companies will also work together on converting U.S. surplus plutonium into advanced reactor fuel, following both firms' recent selection by the DOE under its Surplus Plutonium Utilization Program. Standard Nuclear is the nation's only independent manufacturer of TRISO fuel for advanced reactors, offering a reactor-agnostic supply for both terrestrial and space applications. The U.S. has accumulated nearly 100,000 metric tons of used nuclear fuel, which Oklo is working to position as a domestic feedstock resource rather than a long-term disposal liability.

Chinese researchers have built and are testing a prototype 10-megawatt nuclear power system designed to be mounted on a truck, developed by a team at the Institute of Nuclear Energy Safety Technology in Hefei. The unit is intended as a long-lasting alternative to diesel generators for remote regions, emergency sites, and potentially AI data centers, with developers claiming it could operate for decades without refueling. Technical details remain limited, and significant engineering and regulatory challenges, including crash survivability, shielding, and spent fuel management, remain unresolved.

Ohio's nuclear energy industry has formed a new trade association, the Ohio Nuclear Alliance, as the state sees a growing number of nuclear investments from companies including Centrus Energy and Meta. The Alliance launched at an event in Columbus attended by several state lawmakers, including House Speaker Matt Huffman. Alliance President Rashay Khripunova said the industry needs a coordinating, unified voice, and emphasized the importance of public education in redefining Ohio's relationship with nuclear energy. Huffman told reporters he believes nuclear energy will account for most of the world's power generation 100 years from now. Ohio is home to significant existing nuclear infrastructure, including Centrus Energy's uranium enrichment operations at the former Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Piketon, and has attracted major technology company interest in nuclear-powered data center development.