Nuclear Pulse — August 9, 2026
The week belonged to America's Reactor Pilot Program.
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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