Nuclear Pulse — October 11, 2026
Google's twenty-year agreement with Constellation funds 890 MW of new nuclear capacity, the largest reactor uprate commitment made so far.
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Nuclear Pulse — October 4, 2026
The United States and Saudi Arabia completed a 123 Agreement that permits uranium enrichment and spent-fuel reprocessing on Saudi soil and omits the IAEA Additional Protocol, and senators from both pa...
Nuclear Pulse — September 27, 2026
Italy's Senate approved Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's bill to return the country to nuclear power by 81 votes to 51 with seven abstentions on September 23, four decades after the 1987 referendum tha...
Nuclear Pulse — September 13, 2026
Hyperscalers locked in nuclear baseload at scale, with Google signing a long-term power purchase agreement with Fortum covering up to fifty percent of Finland's Loviisa nuclear power plant output thro...
Nuclear Pulse — September 6, 2026
The week's defining signal is diplomatic rather than technological: the IAEA brokered a localized ceasefire around the occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant so that external power lines can be rep...
Nuclear Pulse — August 30, 2026
The week crystallized two parallel tracks in the global nuclear story: a hard-power hardware track in which the US Army committed USD 2.2 billion to deploy microreactors at five domestic bases, a 20-f...
Nuclear Pulse — August 23, 2026
Russia's state nuclear corporation Rosatom committed to a 30 GW domestic capacity build-out alongside an export expansion push, locking in a multi-decade industrial posture (1).
Nuclear Pulse — August 9, 2026
The week belonged to America's Reactor Pilot Program.
Nuclear Pulse — August 2, 2026
Europe's nuclear fleet showed its climate vulnerability this week as the Danube's record-low water levels forced Hungary to power down the Paks Nuclear Power Plant for the first time in its 44-year op...
Nuclear Pulse — July 19, 2026
India's Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor (PFBR) at Kalpakkam reached first criticality this week, capping a 23-year construction arc and giving New Delhi its first domestically-designed commercial-scale...
Nuclear Pulse — July 12, 2026
Bangladesh's Rooppur nuclear power plant, the country's first atomic facility, reached a commercial-operations threshold this week, marking a watershed moment for developing-world nuclear ambitions fi...
Nuclear Pulse — July 5, 2026
The United States achieved its presidential goal of three reactor criticalities by Independence Day, as Deployable Energy's Unity microreactor reached initial criticality at Idaho National Laboratory...
Nuclear Pulse — June 28, 2026
The United States fired the starting gun on a long-awaited nuclear buildout this week, with the Department of Energy unveiling a $17.5 billion loan program targeting ten new large-scale reactors, a mo...
Nuclear Pulse — Issue #34 — 2026-06-07
A drone strike at the Barakah nuclear power plant in the UAE and a Russian drone hitting the spent fuel storage facility in the Chernobyl exclusion zone dominated nuclear security headlines this week....
Nuclear Pulse — Issue #33 — May 31, 2026
Weekly nuclear intelligence: Zaporizhzhya drone strike, Russia-Kazakhstan .5B deal, Rwanda-Russia agreement, US plutonium-to-fuel conversion, Shin Hanul 4 construction, Blue Castle restart, multiple US state SMR advances
Nuclear Pulse — May 31, 2026
Weekly nuclear news roundup: Zaporizhzhya drone attack, Kazakhstan-Rosatom .5B deal, Rwanda nuclear agreement, US plutonium-to-fuel plan, SMR projects across America, Chernobyl at 40
Nuclear Pulse #32 — Week of May 18–24, 2026
US enrichment plant accelerated review | EDF joins AI Gigafactory consortium | First multi-year HALEU supply contract signed | Blykalla files for six-SMR site | Kazakhstan nuclear localisation plan | Kursk II hits 2 billion kWh