January 2025

Nuclear Reactors 1461 - BWXT Acquires Kinetics For Five Hundred And Twenty Five Million Dollars

     The five hundred- and twenty-five-million-dollar acquisition of the Canadian nuclear services company Kinetrics by BWXT “creates a comprehensive portfolio of end-to-end lifecycle services for customers in the small modular reactor and traditional large-scale nuclear reactor markets”.

Nuclear Reactors 1460 - Deep Fission And Endeavour Energy Are Collaborating In Buried SMRs To Power Data Center

     Offering a unique approach to powering data centers through nuclear fission energy, Deep Fission and Endeavour Energy have just announced a strategic partnership. Their collaboration plans to bury small modular reactors (SMRs) a mile underground.

Nuclear Reactors 1459 - Friends of The Earth Fight U.S. Grant Of One Billion Dollars To California For Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant

     The U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) plans to award one billion dollars in federal funding to keep Central California's aging Diablo Canyon nuclear plant in operation. An environmental group's lawsuit to stop the award appears to be on shaky grounds.
     U.S. District Judge George Wu was appointed by George W. Bush. At a hearing Thursday in downtown Los Angeles, he expressed reservations about Friends of the Earth's (FoE) standing to pursue the case.

Nuclear Reactors 1458 - Laser Photonics Provides Laser Cleaning Tools For The Nuclear Industry

     Laser Photonics Corporation (LPC) is a leading global developer of industrial laser systems for cleaning and other material processing applications. LPC announced today that it received an order from the Cooper Nuclear Station (CNS) which is Nebraska’s largest single-unit generator providing clean and reliable electricity.

Nuclear Fusion 105 - General Atomics Researchers Use Computer Simulations To Reduce Energy Loss In Tokamaks

     Heating plasma to the ultra-high temperatures needed for fusion reactions new techniques. Researchers have considered multiple methods, one of which involves injecting electromagnetic heating waves into the plasma. This is basically the same process that heats food in microwave ovens.

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