Nuclear Energy News in United States
| 6/30/2022 - The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced an amendment to the Civil Nuclear Credit (CNC) Program Guidance for the currently open award cycle. To incorporate these changes and give potential ... |
| 6/23/2022 - Last Energy, which designs, manufactures and commercializes a new fully modular small nuclear reactor, and Enea Group, a leader in the Polish power industry, today signed an agreement to jointly pursu... |
| 6/22/2022 - The Gateway for Accelerated Innovation in Nuclear (GAIN) initiative awarded vouchers to Orano Federal Services (Charlotte, NC) and TerraPower (Bellevue, WA) to help advance their nuclear technologies.... |
| 6/22/2022 - Hexagon’s Asset Lifecycle Intelligence (formerly PPM) division announced that X-energy, a U.S. nuclear reactor and fuel design engineering company, has chosen Hexagon solutions to drive productivity s... |
DOE Awards $61M in Nuclear Energy Projects at U.S. Universities, Industry, and National Laboratories
| 6/17/2022 - The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) awarded more than $61 million for 74 nuclear energy projects across the country. The projects will support nuclear technology development, infrastructure improvemen... |
| 6/9/2022 - BWX Technologies, Inc. will build the first advanced nuclear microreactor in the United States under a contract awarded by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Strategic Capabilities Office (SCO). The... |
| 6/6/2022 - In the commercial nuclear power sector, Westinghouse Electric Company and Bloom Energy Corporation have signed a Letter of Intent to develop clean hydrogen generation. Clean hydrogen projects are bein... |
| 6/1/2022 - Dr. Kathryn Huff leads the Office of Nuclear Energy as the Assistant Secretary. Prior to her current role, she served as a Senior Advisor in the Office of the Secretary. Dr. Huff also led the office a... |
| 5/19/2022 - Penn State and Westinghouse announced that they will partner on research and development efforts focused on exploring and applying nuclear engineering and science innovations to societal needs. They w... |
| 4/25/2022 - NuScale Power LLC (“NuScale”) and Doosan Enerbility Co., Ltd. (“Doosan”) announced through a signed agreement that Doosan will begin production of forging materials for NuScale’s Small Modular Reactor... |
| 4/12/2022 - NextAxiom, the creator of technology enabling digitalization of all work performed within an organization, announced the launch of its Dynamic Workflows product line which is the latest addition to it... |
| 3/29/2022 - - Total committed PIPE investment increased from $211 million to $221 million - Additional institutional investment demonstrates strong investor support for NuScale’s technology and business comb... |
| 3/15/2022 - - Developing an innovative inspection technique called RADMASS (Resonance Absorption Densitometry for Materials Assay Security Safeguard), to help enable affordable ways to reprocess fuel with advance... |
| 2/16/2022 - ZoneFlow Reactor Technologies, LLC (ZFRT) has been granted a U.S. patent for its ZoneFlowTM Bayonet Reactor. The reactor's innovative design promises to drive down the cost of hydrogen production sign... |
| 12/10/2021 - Exelon Corp. hosted U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Granholm on a tour of Exelon’s Braidwood Generating Station in Will County to highlight the economic and environmental benefits of investing in... |
| 12/1/2021 - Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) announced it has closed on more than $1.8 billion in Series B funding to commercialize fusion energy. This includes capital to construct, commission, and operate SPAR... |
| 11/30/2021 - Amentum, a leading contractor of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), announced that Nuclear Production One, LLC, (NPOne), a joint venture between Amentum and Fluor, has been awarded the contract to m... |
| 11/17/2021 - NuScale Power has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Prodigy Clean Energy Ltd. (Prodigy) and Kinectrics Incorporated (Kinectrics) to explore and inform the development of a regulatory fra... |
| 8/14/2020 - The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced an award of $5.1 million to the Electric Power Research Institute, Inc. (EPRI) to develop modular-in-chamber electron beam welding capability for a future... |
| 8/12/2020 - Chevron Corporation announced a Series A investment in Zap Energy Inc., a Seattle-based start-up company developing a next-generation modular nuclear reactor with an innovative approach to advancing c... |
