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China is outpacing the world in building nuclear reactors. That’s hard to dispute given that the country has more than 30 new reactors under construction and more nuclear capacity in pipeline than the rest of the world combined. ignition-news.com/china-wants-10…

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The federal government’s shake-ups over the last few months and the administration’s promise to cut excess spending across the board have left many, ourselves included, on the edge of our seats awaiting the budget. ignition-news.com/trump-administ…

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.Google announced a strategic agreement with Elementl Power, a nuclear project development company, to advance site development for three nuclear projects. ignition-news.com/google-taps-el…

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.@OPG, a Canadian utility, has earned permission from the government of Ontario to begin building the first SMR at the Darlington New Nuclear Project. The project has been years in the making and with this last approval, construction is set to begin. ignition-news.com/ontario-shoots…

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In its mission to build a magnetic mirror fusion machine, RealtaFusion has secured an additional $36M in funding. ignition-news.com/realta-fusion-…

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Dow is in at the @NRC. The chemicals and plastics industrial giant announced that it would work with advanced nuclear firm X-energy to transition an industrial plant in Seadrift, TX to nuclear power. Now, the NRC has confirmed that it’s on board. ignition-news.com/the-nrc-docket…

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A handful of nuclear firms have ventured onto the public markets, and Q1 earnings are starting to trickle in. Over the last week, three publicly traded advanced reactor companies gave us a peek into how things are running. ignition-news.com/q1-earnings-ro…

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The House of Reps passed a reconciliation bill by a one-vote majority. The bill boosts military spending by $150B and makes early cuts to tax credit programs for clean energy, mainly renewables. Overall, nuclear energy maintained support. ignition-news.com/the-big-beauti…

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.Radiant, a nuclear firm founded by a SpaceX alum on a mission to replace diesel reactors with easily manufacturable and shippable nuclear microreactors, has closed a $165M round of funding to support its mission. ignition-news.com/radiant-closes…

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President Trump signed four executive orders. Each targets a different corner of the nuclear power development process, from funding to licensing to testing to deployment. The biggest goal: a 4x jump in US nuclear capacity by 2050. ignition-news.com/four-executive…

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As the advanced nuclear sector gets closer to commercialization, firms are eyeing the public markets for access to capital and to take advantage of public excitement for a potential new, clean, safe energy source. ignition-news.com/a-qa-with-simo…

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.NuScale Power announced last week that it has received NRC standard design approval for its second SMR plan. This reactor has the capacity to produce 77 MW of energy, compared to the 50 MW version of the design that the regulator approved in 2020. ignition-news.com/nuscale-gets-t…

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.Meta agreed to a 20-year power purchase agreement for the entire output of the Clinton Clean Energy Center in Illinois beginning in 2027. ignition-news.com/meta-teams-wit…

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Nuclear power is playing in the big leagues when it comes to attracting capital around the world. Each year, the International Energy Agency counts up the dollars flowing into energy globally. This year, nuclear energy technologies are expected to pull in $74B. ignition-news.com/the-iea-tallie…

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Oak Ridge, TN-based nuclear fuel startup emerged from stealth with a $42M funding round and a lofty goal of supplying the incoming fleet of US advanced reactors with large amounts of TRISO fuel. ignition-news.com/standard-nucle…

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Big Tech is checking every nook and cranny for energy that can fuel a rapid and massive expansion of data centers. Nuclear has become a major part of that hunt, to the benefit of both traditional and advanced nuclear providers. ignition-news.com/a-change-in-th…

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Over the weekend, the US surreptitiously sent a fleet of B-2 stealth bombers armed with bunker-buster bombs and a submarine carrying Tomahawk missiles to target three nuclear infrastructure facilities in Iran. ignition-news.com/the-us-strikes…

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The Bill Gates-backed SMR company just got a fresh flush of cash. TerraPower announced that it closed a massive $650M funding round. ignition-news.com/terrapower-rai…