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July 2026
- Industry & Business
The best nuclear energy news sources (2026)
The eight sources worth following for nuclear energy news in 2026 — trade dailies, regulator feeds and aggregators — compared by focus, cadence and access.
- New Builds & SMRs
BWRX-300 vs AP300 vs Natrium: which SMR is actually winning?
BWRX-300 leads on deployment, AP300 banks on AP1000 heritage, Natrium adds storage. How the three highest-profile Western SMR programs compare in 2026.
- New Builds & SMRs
Natrium, explained: TerraPower's reactor with a built-in battery
Natrium pairs a 345 MWe sodium-cooled fast reactor with molten-salt storage that boosts output to 500 MWe — and it's now under construction in Wyoming.
- New Builds & SMRs
The BWRX-300, explained
GE Vernova Hitachi's BWRX-300 is a 300 MWe boiling-water SMR — the first Western small modular reactor to reach construction, at OPG's Darlington site.
- New Builds & SMRs
Small modular reactors: the complete guide
Small modular reactors are nuclear plants of up to 300 MWe built from factory-made modules. Who's building them, where, and what's actually under construction.
June 2026
- Fuel & Supply Chain
DOE to offer $17.5bn in nuclear supply chain loans
The US Department of Energy is offering up to $17.5bn in supply-chain loans to rebuild the nuclear industrial base and back ten new large reactors.
- New Builds & SMRs
OPG seeks licence to operate first G7 small modular reactor
Ontario Power Generation has applied for a 20-year licence to operate the first BWRX-300 at Darlington — set to be the first SMR running in a G7 nation.
- Policy & Regulation
NRC opens environmental review of Holtec's Palisades new-build
The NRC has begun the environmental review of Holtec's plan to site two SMR-300 reactors at Palisades, pushing the Michigan project deeper into licensing.
- Fusion
Fusion, explained: three ways to bottle a star
Tokamaks, stellarators and laser-driven inertial confinement are three routes to the same prize: net energy from fusing light atoms. Here is how they differ.
- Research & Innovation
US opens DOME, a first-of-a-kind microreactor test bed
Built inside the repurposed EBR-II containment at Idaho National Laboratory, the DOME test bed gives microreactor developers a fast track to fission testing.