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Wyoming And Spokane Data Center Pauses Show NIMBY Fury Has Shifted From Nuclear To AI
2+ hour, 3+ min ago (65+ words) Zero Hedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero...
Sw RI upgrades HEAT facility to support alternative fuel testing
8+ hour, 28+ min ago (38+ words) Eurek Alert! Southwest Research Institute (Sw RI) has completed a three-year renovation to its High Energy Annex Test (HEAT) facility, which supports gas turbine combustor testing. Credit: Southwest Research Institute...
Helion Secures All Regulatory Licenses, a First for US Fusion Energy
3+ hour, 12+ min ago (157+ words) Helion Energy announces it has secured all required regulatory licenses, a first for a US fusion company. The firm is building a reactor in Malaga, Washington, targeting electricity delivery to Microsoft by 2028. Helion has also begun construction on a fusion…...
n Light CEO Says Megawatt Demo Is On Track
6+ hour, 33+ min ago (92+ words) Aviation Week n Light CEO Says Megawatt Demo Is On Track Steve covers military aviation, missiles and space for the Aviation Week Network, based in Washington, DC. n Light CEO Says Megawatt Demo Is On Track is published in Aerospace Daily…...
Three Nuclear Stocks That Could Ride the AI Power Crunch
10+ hour, 16+ min ago (1098+ words) 16 Jun 2026, 23: 45 Energy-hungry data centres are driving demand for uranium to power artificial intelligence (AI)." According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), 40% of the electricity used by data centres in the US is currently sourced from natural gas, followed by renewables…...
Rolls-Royce SMR to build reactors in Sweden
13+ hour, 6+ min ago (403+ words) Grants, bursaries and prizes for student and early career members and funding for schools Videberg'Kraft selected Rolls-Royce SMR to build Sweden's first new nuclear power plant in more than 40 years. The Videberg Project is hoped to significantly strengthen the Swedish…...
US Regulator Begins Environmental Review Of Pioneer Small Modular Reactor Project
11+ hour, 6+ min ago (100+ words) Nuc Net US Regulator Begins Environmental Review Of Pioneer Small Modular Reactor Project Holtec subsidiary planning two nuclear units at Palisades site in Michigan Want to know more? - Independent news and information for and about the global nuclear industry - For…...
UK-Japan fusion partnership strengthened by UKAEA and QST
16+ hour, 15+ min ago (427+ words) Memorandum of Cooperation signed between UK national fusion laboratory and Japan's National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology. Yasuyoshi Kakita, Vice-Minister for Policy Coordination, MEXT, Shigeo Koyasu, President of QST, Tim Bestwick, CEO, UKAEA, Michael Shanks, Minister for Energy, at…...
American Science Cloud Leverages Fermilab Data Infrastructure for Research
17+ hour, 12+ min ago (328+ words) At Fermilab, we orchestrate thousands of disks to provide petabytes of storage space, and we make sure researchers can access their data quickly and securely," -Oliver Gutsche, lead of the Fermi Data Platform project. The American Science Cloud will be…...
Circularly polarized light reduces damage to optical elements in inertial confinement fusion
15+ hour, 39+ min ago (153+ words) lead image Michel et al. derived the first analytical expressions comparing two-beam CBET for linear and circular polarization. Using a wave mixing theory with arbitrary polarization and a new simulation tool, they investigated the interaction between 96 lasers in realistic ICF…...