Financial News on Nuclear Power

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• Oklo And Centrus signal progress on the nuclear fuel-chain bottleneck in the USA. They seek to achieve to "... expand deconversion capacity, strengthen domestic supply chains, and advance a more efficient fuel-cycle model that operates from the same location".
  - Zero Hedge, 09 March 2026

• Rossiya warns a "vulnerable" Finland as Finland acts to lift a ban on hosting the nuclear weapons of NATO
  - Zero Hedge, 07 March 2026

• There is one crucial reason why we are talking about [sending USA soldiers into Iran] - seizing Iran's enriched uranium. Otherwise, the invasion and destruction of [Islamic] Iran by the [Christian] USA and [Jewish] Israel is cruel and pointless.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 07 March 2026

• A novel nuclear reactor technology (small reactors) gets first federal permit in a decade to start building
  - Zero Hedge, 05 March 2026

• An attack by [the Christian] USA on [Islamic] Iran is still the worst option
  - Real Clear Defense, 25 February 2026

• [The 'good' Christian] Trump said that Islamic Iran's nuclear program is close to producing weapons-grade nuclear materials. Exprts say no.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 25 February 2026

• [The 'good' Christian] Trump said that Islamic Iran's nuclear program was "obliterated" (with the help of Jewish Israel). So why does he want to attack Iran again, [JC: unless his obliterated is a "thou shalt not" lie]
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 25 February 2026

• Former Apollo executive Gregory Beard was recently tapped to run the Office of Energy Dominance Financing (part of the Department of Energy), the largest [socialist] energy lender in the world, with some $289 billion in [socialist] loan authority.
  - Versant's CNBC, 22 February 2026

• Iran says that the USA has not asked it to stop enriching uranium. The comments by the foreign minister of Iran contradicted the Trump administration's position.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 21 February 2026

• [The authoritarian] Trump has told Congress he is pursuing a civil nuclear pact with Saudi Arabia that does not include non-proliferation safeguards the U.S. has long said would ensure the kingdom does not develop nuclear weapons, according to a copy of the document sent to Congress and reviewed by Reuters.
  - Thomson's Reuters, 19 February 2026

• US particle accelerators turn nuclear waste into electricity, cut radioactive life by 99.7%. The system uses a particle accelerator to fire high-energy protons at a target, such as liquid mercury, to trigger spallation.
  - Interesting Engineering, 19 February 2026

• Big Tech turns to uranium for nuclear power, as AI data center power demand soars
  - Zero Hedge, 18 February 2026

• Big Tech turns to uranium for nuclear power, as AI data center power demand soars
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 18 February 2026

• Zhōngguó is building nuclear-powered submarines faster than ever, think tank says. Why that is a problem for the USA. While the USA has more and better such submarines, if Zhōngguó catches up, not good for the USA where the larger force usually prevails. And Zhōngguó already possesses the largest fleet of destroyers, frigates and surface combatants in the world.
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 17 February 2026

• As demand grows, the nuclear energy industry in the USA faces looming crunch in reactor fuel supply. This, after the Department of Energy (DOE) has invested billions in incentivizing domestic production of enriched uranium for the commercial development of advanced nuclear reactors, including $2.7 billion issued last month to three companies to build centrifuges and processing plants necessary to produce fuel for reactor cores.
  - Zero Hedge, 15 February 2026

• Deutschland and France hold secret talks on continental nuclear shield in pivot from the USA. Merz: "The leadership claim of the USA [under Trump] is being challenged, perhaps already lost."
  - Zero Hedge (locked), 13 February 2026

• Newly unbound, [the 'good' Christian] Trump considers more nuclear weapons/swords and underground tests. It remains to be seen whether the three big nuclear powers are headed into a new arms race, or whether President Trump is trying to spur negotiations on a new accord now that a last Cold War treaty has expired. [JC: money better spent on ploughshares]
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 11 February 2026

• Iran offers to dilute enriched uranium if the USA lifts all the sanctions. Huge overture as Tehran signals serious compromise.
  - Zero Hedge, 09 February 2026

• Iran refuses to end nuclear enrichment in talks with the USA. Tehran stuck to its position, but signaled a willingness to keep working toward a diplomatic solution.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 07 February 2026

• Nuclear arms control era comes to end amid global rush for new weapons. Beijing, Moscow and shaken American allies are seeking new warheads as [the authoritarian] Trump ends more than a half century of nuclear arms control with Rossiya.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 05 February 2026

• The president of Poland pushes for aggressive move to nuclear power, bypassing liquid natural gas, amidst 'geopolitical turmoils'. "The president's goal is for us not to make a hasty transition by replacing coal with gas, but to immediately switch from coal to nuclear power."
  - Zero Hedge, 03 February 2026

• Why the collapse of the last USA-Rossiya nuclear treaty matters for Zhōngguó and the world. Analysts warn expiry of New Start could trigger vicious circle and three-way arms race between Zhōngguó, Rossiya and the USA.
  - Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 03 February 2026

• Centrus will invest $560 million into their Oak Ridge, Tennessee, centrifuge production facility to convert it to a high-rate manufacturing plant with the goal of quickly addressing the lack of domestic enrichment of uranium and get new centrifuge cascades online 2029.
  - Zero Hedge, 25 January 2026

• The leading general in Zhōngguó is accused of giving nuclear secrets to the USA. Bribery allegations have also been leveled against Gen. Zhang Youxia, whose downfall carries implications for the military readiness of Zhōngguó.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 25 January 2026

• The leading general in Zhōngguó is accused of giving nuclear secrets to the USA. Bribery allegations have also been leveled against Gen. Zhang Youxia, whose downfall carries implications for the military readiness of Zhōngguó.
  - Zero Hedge, 25 January 2026

• New-wave nuclear reactors (small modular reactors) are the face of an American nuclear renaissance. Some experts are sounding alarms about the hype. The total cost of SMRs may be lower than conventional nuclear power plants, but they are still very expensive, meaning the price of electricity they produce will be far higher than wind, solar or gas, experts warn. They also take a long time to become operational. [KM: only suitable for private investment]
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 22 January 2026

• Nuclear stocks surge after Trump tells davos that the "USA is going heavy into nuclear power"
  - Zero Hedge, 21 January 2026

• The Trump administration offers states deals/[bribes] to host nuclear waste storage facilities, in return for incentives to build nuclear reactors
  - Thomson's Reuters, 21 January 2026

• Zhōngguó is building world-first triad reactor system to power world-class chemical plant. Project uses nuclear energy to pump clean steam to the petrochemical industry while also supplying electricity.
  - Alibaba's South China Morning Post (locked), 21 January 2026

• Zhōngguó's newest aircraft carrier, the Fujian, has significant design flaws that future carriers can overcome only by adopting nuclear power, according to a military magazine.
  - Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 18 January 2026

• LIS Technologies launches $1.4 billion laser uranium enrichment project in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
  - Zero Hedge, 16 January 2026

• Small modular reactor developers push new partnerships and use cases. After Oklo's blockbuster news on Friday, SMR developers Nano Nuclear and NuScale Power released their own updates on new engineering partnerships and potential use cases.
  - Zero Hedge, 12 January 2026

• Researchers have determined that coffee is an effective, non-toxic substitute for the hazardous chemicals traditionally used in high-resolution microscopic imaging. One such chemical is uranyl acetate.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 09 January 2026

• Rossiya strikes Ukraine with Oreshnik nuclear-capable ballistic missile, one of its most advanced weapons
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 09 January 2026

• Rossiya strikes Ukraine with Oreshnik nuclear-capable ballistic missile, one of its most advanced weapons
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 09 January 2026

• Zhōngguó's 'artificial sub' breaks nuclear fusion limit with regards to plasma density thought to be impossible. By pushing plasma density well past long-standing empirical limits, the researchers said fusion ignition can be achieved with far higher energy outputs.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 07 January 2026

• The Department of Justice (DOJ) Antitrust Division recently authorized antitrust immunity to companies involved in the nuclear fuel chain in the USA
  - Zero Hedge, 30 December 2025

• Protests calling for "death to the dictator" erupt across Iran. Students chant pro-women and slogans against Ayatollah Khamenei amid worsening economic crisis.
  - Barclay's The Telegraph, 29 December 2025

• The largest protests in three years in Islamic Iran erupted Monday after Iran's currency plummeted to a record low against the USA dollar (1.42 million rials for one USA dollar), and the head of the Central Bank resigned. Islamic Iran's currency was trading at 32,000 rials to the dollar at the time of the 2015 nuclear accord that lifted international sanctions in exchange for tight controls on Iran's nuclear technology program.
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 29 December 2025

• The largest protests in three years in Islamic Iran erupted Monday after Iran's currency plummeted to a record low against the USA dollar (1.42 million rials for one USA dollar), and the head of the Central Bank resigned. Islamic Iran's currency was trading at 32,000 rials to the dollar at the time of the 2015 nuclear accord that lifted international sanctions in exchange for tight controls on Iran's nuclear technology program.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 29 December 2025

• As memories of the Fukushima disaster fade, Nihon seeks bigger role for nuclear power. The reboot of the nuclear reactor on the Sea of Nihon coast will mark a milestone for a nation that suffered one of the worst nuclear disasters in the world.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 29 December 2025

• The special cargo aboard the Russian arms ship that went down off Cartagena, Spain, last year was not what its crew initially reported, according to Spanish outlet La Verdad. The blue-tarped objects on the vessel's stern were likely naval reactor components, unfueled and potentially headed for North Korea, national authorities determined.
  - Maritime Executive, 28 December 2025

• Zhōngguó reaches a milestone in building a laboratory in Beishan for managing nuclear waste. Team finishes construction of steep spiral ramp leading to underground facility where nuclear waste will be secured for thousands of years.
  - Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 27 December 2025

• Turkey just took another very large, very deliberate step deeper into Rossiya's energy orbit - and this time it comes with a $9 billion price tag. Ankara says that Russia has provided $9 billion in new financing for the Akkuyu nuclear power plant, Turkey's first-ever nuclear facility, which is being built by Rossiya's state-owned Rosatom on the Mediterranean coast.
  - OilPrice.com, 26 December 2025

• The USA or Zhōngguó? The country that wins the technology race to implement nuclear fusion - wins global primacy
  - Zero Hedge, 24 December 2025

• Why the "everyone is a winner" energy trade [relying on the AI bubble] can't last forever. From solar to nuclear to coal, stocks have soared on AI demand and the AI bubble.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 24 December 2025

• Nihon to restart the world's biggest nuclear power plant, 15 years after the disaster at Fukushima
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 22 December 2025

• Another Trump financial conflict/[grift], this time with nuclear power. Trump Media plans to merge with a company developing nuclear fusion technology, putting Trump's financial interests in competition with other energy companies over which his administration holds sway.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 20 December 2025

• The Parliament of Bharat approves a new law that open the civil nuclear power sector to private companies
  - Associated Press, 18 December 2025

• Why nuclear fusion is considered the elusive holy grail of physics and economics. Trump's media company is [recklessly] betting a breakthrough is imminent.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 18 December 2025

• Trump Media announces $6 billion merger with fusion company TAE Technologies (backed by Google); DJT stock soars 25%. [A 'Hail Mary', as commercial fusion power still does not exist.]
  - Versant's CNBC, 18 December 2025

• Trump Media announces $6 billion merger with fusion company TAE Technologies (backed by Google); DJT stock soars 25%. [A 'Hail Mary', as commercial fusion power still does not exist.]
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 18 December 2025

• Clean, limitless energy exists. Zhōngguó is going big in the race to harness it. Beijing is pouring vast resources into fusion research, while the USA wants private industry to lead the way. The winner could reshape civilization.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 13 December 2025

• A mysterious black fungus from Chernobyl that seems to feed on radiation. Cells of the fungus are packed with lots of melanin (which protects human cells from UV) - maybe it is protecting the funbus (as well as new, darker skinned frogs in the area).
  - BBC, 28 November 2025

• Zhōngguó is building a mega science infrastructure that could add fuel to the global maritime power race: a floating artificial island engineered to withstand nuclear blasts. The 78,000 ton semi-submersible twin-hull plaform is the world's first mobile, self-sustaining artificial island.
  - Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 20 November 2025

• The latest nationalis socialist industrial policy from Trump: Constellation Energy obtains a $1 billion socialist loan from the USA government, instead of the capitalist private sector, to restart the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant
  - Zero Hedge, 18 November 2025

• The latest nationalis socialist industrial policy from Trump: Constellation Energy obtains a $1 billion socialist loan from the USA government, instead of the capitalist private sector, to restart the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant
  - Versant's CNBC, 18 November 2025

• Britain gives go-ahead to smaller nuclear reactor in Wales. The government pledged 2.5 billion pounds for initial site work, but the decision to build a small, modular design may disappoint others, including the nuclear industry in the USA.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 14 November 2025

• A giant problem emerges for the AI trade/[bubble]: a power shortfall of 44 nuclear power plants by 2028
  - Zero Hedge, 12 November 2025

• $100,000,000 - Ukraine arrests 5 people linked to a $100 million crime/graft in the energy sector involving Ukraine's atomic energy company, Energoatom
  - Associated Press, 11 November 2025

• Trump's latest nationalisty socialist industrial policy: Trump's administration to lend "hundreds of billions" of dollars to build new nuclear power plants. If this made any economic sense, private sector investors would lend the money.
  - Zero Hedge, 10 November 2025

• Ant Group joins the nuclear fusion funding bubble in Zhōngguó, as AI increases the demand for energy sources
  - Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 10 November 2025

• The new boom in nuclear power in the USA begins with an old, un-solved problem: who is going to pay to dispose of radioactive wastes - investors (capitalism) or taxpayers (socialism)? Already, taxpayers are socialistically subsidizing nuclear power plants for to $800 million every year, a socialist subsidy that has reached $11.1 billion since 1998, and could grow to $44.5 billion in the future - to deal with the 95,000 metric tons of existing nuclear waste. Problem? How to store, manage and dispose of radioactive waste - for thousands of years. [KM: Can't wait to see the ChatGPT solution for this!
  - Versant's CNBC, 09 November 2025

• Residents outraged as a Holtec US nuclear power plant obtains approval to dump radioactive waste into major river, the Hudson River
  - The Cool Down, 05 November 2025

• The liberal Democrats wasted billions on their socialist industrial policy (subsidies for solar energy, such as the billions wasted on Solyndra). Now the national socialist industrial policy of Trump will be wasting billions on subsidies for the very costly nuclear power industry (such as billions that will be wasted by Westinghouse to maybe build nuclear power plants)
  - Cato at Liberty, 03 November 2025

• Zhōngguó reaches energy independence milestone by 'breeding' uranium from thorium. A research institute in Zhōngguó confirms success of fission-based innovation that is poised to reshape clean, sustainable nuclear power.
  - Zero Hedge, 03 November 2025

• The Energy Secretary clarifies no nuclear explosions "for now". If the USA ever did move toward detonating a nuclear bomb, arms control experts say it would take about 36 months to restart such tests.
  - Zero Hedge, 03 November 2025

• How Britain got investors to invest in nuclear power. Developers have finally broken ground on the project, known as Sizewell C, but getting there meant navigating wary investors and local opposition.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 03 November 2025

• Trump and Xi ease off the trade war, but new nuclear threat brings a chill. The two leaders reached an agreement on fentanyl, some tariffs and rare earths. But Trump spurred new worries about nuclear proliferation.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 30 October 2025

• Trump directs nuclear weapons testing to resume for first time in over 30 years. Zhōngguó responded to Trump's announcement, saying it hoped the USA would earnestly fulfil its obligations under the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) and honour its commitment to suspend nuclear testing.
  - BBC, 30 October 2025

• Trump directs nuclear weapons testing to resume for first time in over 30 years. Zhōngguó responded to Trump's announcement, saying it hoped the USA would earnestly fulfil its obligations under the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) and honour its commitment to suspend nuclear testing.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 30 October 2025

• As Trump restarts nuclear weapons testing, the USA's nuclear testing center faces a major test. Los Alamos National Laboratory has problems with contamination, work disruptions and old infrastructure.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 30 October 2025

• Republican nationalist socialist industrial policies goes nuclear: Trump bets $80 billion on government-back energy investments
  - Reason, 29 October 2025

• Rossiya tests a nuclear super-torpedo that is capable of creating radioactive tidal waves to attack an enemy's coastline
  - Zero Hedge, 29 October 2025

• Rossiya tests a nuclear super-torpedo that is capable of creating radioactive tidal waves to attack an enemy's coastline
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 29 October 2025

• How Zhōngguó raced ahead of the USA on nuclear power technology. The USA was once the undisputed leader in atomic energy. Now it is trying to catch up.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 29 October 2025

• The Trump administration backs plan for new nuclear power plants
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 29 October 2025

• The next 5-year plan for Zhōngguó has a goal of reducing the nuclear weapons gap with the USA and Rossiya, by expanding and modernizing its arsenal of nuclear weapons.
  - Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 29 October 2025

• The USA Army is to install nuclear microreactors on its military bases by 2028
  - Zero Hedge, 27 October 2025

• The USA Army plans to power military bases with tiny nuclear reactors
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 15 October 2025

• The next nuclear story stock: ASP Isotopes shares surge after supply contract for silicon-28 and acquisition of USA Radiopharmacy
  - Zero Hedge, 13 October 2025

• Countries in Asia hope for cheaper oil as an Israeli-Hamas ceasefire increases hope for more calm in the Middle East. Traders are watching to see if the deal will lead to safer shipping routes and renewed progress on Iran's nuclear negotiations.
  - Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 11 October 2025

• Nuclear power plants in my backyard? More people in the USA seem comfortable with this expansion.
  - Versant's CNBC, 05 October 2025

• Islamic Iran is rapidly rebuilding [of course] missile production sites attacked by Jewish Israel (supported by the Christian USA)
  - Zero Hedge, 24 September 2025

• Companies keep buying future fusion power that definitely, for sure, absolutely will exist, even though many facilities are not built, and no one has a fusion plant that produces more energy than used
  - Gravity Is Gone, 22 September 2025

• Nuclear stocks are soaring/ bubbling. We size up the prospects for 3 new ones - Terra Innovation, Terrestrial Energy, and Eagle Energy Metals. Three companies building small nuclear reactors aim to go public via SPACS. What to watch for.
  - Barron's, 20 September 2025

• Shares of nuclear energy stocks rise with Trump's plans for uranium enrichment due today
  - Zero Hedge, 19 September 2025

• Uranium stocks rise sharply after a bunch of goods for the nuclear power industry
  - Zero Hedge, 16 September 2025

• Energy secretary Wright says that the USA will expand uranium reserve as nuclear energy enters the "rapid growth" phase
  - Zero Hedge, 15 September 2025

• Nano Nuclear wins a contract to prototype a 15-megawatt nuclear microreactor for the USA Air Force
  - Zero Hedge, 15 September 2025

• Zhōngguó considers converting coal-fired power plants to nuclear energy generation facilities
  - Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 15 September 2025

• Nuclear power startup Deep Fission has received funding to bury its 15-megawatt water-cooled mini-ereactors a mile underground. The company has taken an unusual path to raise money, completing an alternative public offering (APO) that brought in $30 million at $3 per share - well below the $10 price typical of traditional IPOs. Burying the systems in bedrock creates natural shielding, offers protection against external threats, and reduces the surface footprint. Billions of tons of rock provide passive safety and containment.
  - Interesting Engineering, 11 September 2025

• Islamic Iran and the UN reach a new agreement to resume nuclear inspections. Meanwhile, the Christian USA does not require Jewish Israel to allow inspections of its nuclear weapons facilities.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 10 September 2025

• The unsolved problem of nuclear waste disposal in the United Kingdom that is slowing down expansion of nuclear power
  - Zero Hedge, 09 September 2025

• Out-of-control AI is starting to make experts on nuclear deterrence very nervous. Specifically, they say that a widespread push to integrate AI into virtually every level of military decision-making [by lazy generals, too busy preparing resumes] is creating a "slippery slope" in which AI will either be given the power to launch nuclear weapons itself, or the humans with that power will become so reliant on its guidance that they'll do so if the AI tells them to. [All such military people are traitors - and should be court-martialed.]
  - Futurism, 07 September 2025

• The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) has entered into an agreement with ENTRA1 Energy to develop up to 6 gigawatts (GW) of new nuclear power. It involves the construction of six new nuclear plants across TVA's seven-state service region. Each of these new facilities will be powered by 12 individual NuScale Power Modules. This collaboration is projected to deliver approximately 5.5 GW of electricity, an output sufficient to power an estimated 4.5 million homes or 60 new large-scale data centers.
  - Interesting Engineering, 05 September 2025

• After bombing Islamic Iran's secret nuclear facilities, which Iran allows to be inspected (to some extent) by international regulators, Jewish Israel (with the support of the Christian USA) begins work on a major new facility at the nuclear site near Dimona, Israel, the location of the secret nuclear weapons program of Jewish Israel. Israel is believed to have somewhere between 90 and 300 nuclear warheads, but the real figure is unknown since both Israel and the USA do not officially acknowledge that the nuclear stockpiles exist. Israel is not a signatory to the Non-Proliferation Treaty, and its secret weapons program is not subject to any international inspections. Shouldn't Jewish Israel ... bomb itself?
  - Zero Hedge, 04 September 2025

• The IAEA discovers traces of depleted uranium at sites in Islamic Syria bombed by Jewish Israel. Possible evidence of Jewish Israel's uranium-based munitions, or uranium linked to potential past nuclear activities in Islamic Syria.
  - Zero Hedge, 03 September 2025

• More than 2,000 nuclear weapons have been detonated in the past 80 years. The health effects (such as cancer) of their fallout radiation still linger around the world.
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 24 August 2025

• How the racist sanctions of the USA with regard to nuclear technology being sent to Zhōngguó completely failed. The strict sanctions amid national security concerns has forced Zhōngguó to become self-sufficient with "incredible" results.
  - Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 24 August 2025

• Researchers create a new technique for room temperature fusion: combining a plasma thruster, palladium target and electrochemical cell
  - Gizmodo, 20 August 2025

• Global nuclear power generation hits record high as Asia surges ahead. Asia Pacific, led by Zhōngguó's 13% annual growth rate, now accounts for over 28% of global nuclear output, marking a major geopolitical and energy shift.
  - Zero Hedge, 19 August 2025

• Google and Kairos Power to deploy advanced nuclear plant in Tennessee Valley Authority by 2030. The advanced nuclear reactors from Kairos operate at near atmospheric pressure using molten fluoride salt instead of water as coolant.
  - Versant's CNBC, 18 August 2025

• Bharat plans to allow its private companies to mine and import uranium to help the expansion of its nuclear industry
  - Thomson's Reuters, 13 August 2025

• Scientists in Zhōngguó have developed a breakthrough steel, CHSN01, capable of withstanding extreme cold and massive magnetic forces, and deployed it this year in the world's first fusion nuclear power generation reactor.
  - Zero Hedge, 11 August 2025

• Sheer lunacy from the Trump administration - wanting to build a nuclear reactor on the moon
  - Real Clear Science, 09 August 2025

• The USA does not need nuclear reactors on the moon - they are impractical, expensive and dangerous. Transportation Secretary and acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy's plan to fast-track nuclear reactors on the moon is a dangerous distraction to real problems facing the USA.
  - Comcast's MSNBC, 06 August 2025

• Energy companies in Rossiya, including Rosatom, are experiencing significant financing difficulties, raising doubts about their ability to fulfill international energy project commitments.
  - Zero Hedge, 04 August 2025

• Zhōngguó makes progress with fast nuclear reactor technology. The Zhōngguó National Nuclear Corporation's neutron reactor could generate up to 1.2GW and provide a more efficient, cleaner source of power.
  - Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 26 July 2025

• Yes, the New York Times is committing genocidial journalism. In his latest column for the NYT, Bret Stephens tries to excuse a uniquely horrific crime with uniquely horrific journalism.
  - Al Jazeera, 23 July 2025

• Despite destructive bombings by the Christian USA and Jewish Israel, Islamic Iran says that it is "ready" for war, and will not halt its nuclear development activities
  - Zero Hedge, 23 July 2025

• Despite exaggerations/lies to the contrary (Trump: "totally obliterated"), a new analysis by the USA determines that bombings by the Christian USA and Jewish Israel destroyed only one of three Iranian facitilites for the nuclear technology activities
  - Zero Hedge, 17 July 2025

• Despite exaggerations/lies to the contrary (Trump: "totally obliterated"), a new analysis by the USA determines that bombings by the Christian USA and Jewish Israel destroyed only one of three Iranian facitilites for the nuclear technology activities
  - Versant's CNBC, 17 July 2025

• A mine for uranium in Inner Mongolia yields its first barrel of uranium that is mined with in-site leeching using a method that is "green, safe and intelligent"
  - Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 13 July 2025

• Researchers in Zhōngguó have invented a process that uses candle wax to make water-based gel particles that can efficiently separate uranium from seawater
  - Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 13 July 2025

• Georgia Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene announced she will introduce an amendment to strike a half-billion dollars in additional military aid for the country -- and she notably emphasized its status as a nuclear power. "... And it is important to say nuclear-armed Israel, because they do have nuclear weapons." She argues that the $500 million is better spent defending the USA.
  - Zero Hedge, 11 July 2025

• The chief of intelligence for the government of France says that the USA overstated the impact of its bombing of nuclear sites in Iran, and that no one knows where the uranium is located
  - Zero Hedge, 09 July 2025

• Did Trump's and Israel's bombing of nuclear facilities in Iran really "obliterate" the nuclear capabilities of Iran, or did it idiotically make it harder for the UN's International Atomic Energy Agency to monitor Iran, since the agency says it has "nothing" about information on where Iran's stockpile of enriched uranium is now located. And now that he has his bombing "happy ending", Trump seems to have lost interest in this 'vital' problem.
  - Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 05 July 2025

• Inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency leave Iran, after Iran halts cooperation with the agency after Iran was illegally bombed by the USA and Israel
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 05 July 2025

• Inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency leave Iran, after Iran halts cooperation with the agency after Iran was illegally bombed by the USA and Israel. Iran vows to keep enriching uranium.
  - Zero Hedge, 05 July 2025

• Some nuclear reactors in Europe were temporarily shutdown due to extreme heat caused by global heating due to the burning of fossil fuels. The nuclear reactors typically send their heated cooling waters into rivers, rivers which are now already very hot. The output of the reactors could make the rivers hotter, harming animals such as fishes in the rivers.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 04 July 2025

• The world's first testbed for microreactor nuclear technology opens at the DoE's Idaho National Laboratory
  - Interesting Engineering, 02 July 2025

• Despite massive bombing by the USA, the UN envoy for Iran says that Iran "will never stop" enriching uranium, though only for peaceful purposes
  - Zero Hedge, 30 June 2025

• How Israel murdered the top nuclear scientists of Iran (with the support of the USA). Unjustifiable because a new generation of nuclear scientists in Iran can easily replace them (easily using the AI technology of the USA).
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 30 June 2025

• Trump wants to expand supplies of nuclear power. It will not be easy to achieve. Developers need to prove they can deliver on time and on budget to kick-start investor interest.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 30 June 2025

• The head of the United Nation's nuclear watchdog (the IAEA) says bombing and missile attacks by the USA and Israel on Iran fell short of causing "total" damage to its nuclear program and that Iran could restart enriching uranium "in a matter of months" contradicting Trump's claims/lies that the USA set Iran's ambitions back by decades.
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 29 June 2025

• The head of the United Nation's nuclear watchdog (the IAEA) says bombing and missile attacks by the USA and Israel on Iran fell short of causing "total" damage to its nuclear program and that Iran could restart enriching uranium "in a matter of months" contradicting Trump's claims/lies that the USA set Iran's ambitions back by decades.
  - Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 29 June 2025

• Israel and the USA bombed a nuclear site in Iran that grew after Trump quit the 2015 nuclear accord with Iran. Nuclear experts say Trump's rejection of the restrictive deal forced him to neutralize a threat from Iran of his own making.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 28 June 2025

• Nuclear power's biggest IPO in years will happen soon. Holtec CEO says the plan is to go public within several months. The IPO may be coming at just the right time.
  - Barron's, 28 June 2025

• Republican Senator Graham breaks with Republican Trump over the effectiveness of the USA bombing of nuclear facilities in Iran. "[We] don't know where the enriched uranium is." and "[Their facilities] are obliterated today but they can reconstitute." And a Democratic Senator rightly pointed out: "You cannot bomb knowledge out of existence - no matter how many scientists you kill. There are still people in Iran who how to work centrifuges. And if they still have enriched uranium and they still have the ability to use centrifuges, then you're not setting back the program by years. You're setting back the program by months."
  - Zero Hedge, 27 June 2025

• "Why not an Islamic bomb?" How Jewish Israel planned and failed to stop Islamic Pakistan from going nuclear. In the 1980s, to get support from Pakistan against Rossiya in Afghanistan, the USA gave technical training to nuclear scienists in Pakistan.
  - Zero Hedge, 25 June 2025

• UBS bank raises its prediction for the price of uranium as the "repowering the USA" nuclear power theme becomes stronger
  - Zero Hedge, 25 June 2025

• Early assessments by USA intelligence agencies suggest that bombing attacks by the USA on nuclear facilities in Iran did not destroy the nuclear sites, and likely only set it back by months
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 24 June 2025

• Where are the uranium holdings of Iran? A top secret document leaked from USA intelligence services reports that that Iran's core nuclear components are "intact", despite massive bombing by the USA and Israel. "So the (DIA) assessment is that the bombings by the USA set back Iran maybe a few months in their nuclear efforts."
  - Zero Hedge, 24 June 2025

• Iran's plans to develop nuclear technology may survive even a devastating bombing attack by the USA
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 24 June 2025

• "There was no intelligence" about Iran wanting to build nuclear weapons: Trump's attacks on Iran were based on 'vibes', sources say. "The intelligence assessment have not really changed from what they were before." Senatore Chris Murphy: "I was briefed on the intelligence last week. Iran posed no imminent threat of attack to the United States. Iran was not close to building a deliverable nuclear weapon."
  - Rolling Stone, 22 June 2025

• The tolerance of nuclear powers such as the USA for invasions by Rossiya of Ukraine, and by Israel of Iran, and rising doubts about the political reliability of the USA, are making countries around the world wonder if having their own nuclear weapons is important to their survival.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 21 June 2025

• Cameco, Nuscale, GE Vernova and other companies to profit from the overseas boom in nuclear energy
  - Barron's, 21 June 2025

• The head of the UN nuclear watchdog agency, the IAEA, has issued fresh remarks before the Security Council on Friday, warning that Israel's missile attacks on Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant is where the consequences of an attack could be most serious, releasing high levels of radioactive materials into the environment. Radiation monitoring would need to cover distances of several hundred kilometres, and food restrictions may need to be implemented.
  - Zero Hedge, 20 June 2025

• The European Union estimates it will require $277 billion in investments for conventional nuclear power expansion by 2050
  - OilPrice.com, 18 June 2025

• The Supreme Court restarted plans to temporarily store nuclear waste at sites in rural Texas and New Mexico, even as the nation is at an impasse over a permanent solution that will require socialist subsidies from taxpayers, instead of making the socialist owners of the nuclear power plants pay to dispose their waste. Roughly 100,000 tons (90,000 metric tons) of spent fuel, some of it dating from the 1980s, is piling up at current and former nuclear plant sites nationwide and growing by more than 2,000 tons (1,800 metric tons) a year. The waste was meant to be kept there temporarily before being deposited deep underground.
  - Associated Press, 18 June 2025

• Trump rejects Netanyahu's request for the USA to join Israel's war against Iran, as Israel needs the large bunker buster bombs made in the USA, to target and destroy the ortified Fordow uranium enrichment site in Iran. If Fordow remains intact, Israel's mission to dismantle Iran's nuclear program will be a failure, though Israel's mission to kill more Islamic people won't be a failure.
  - Zero Hedge, 15 June 2025

• Two investment managers investment big on uranium - Sprott Asset Management CEO John Ciampaglia (which offers two uranium ETFs) and VanEck CEO Jan van Eck (which has one nuclear/uranium ETF)
  - Versant's CNBC, 15 June 2025

• "Significant damage" is seen after the headquarters of the Israeli Defense Force is attacked by missiles launched by Iran. "The IDF cannot, and will not, allow Iran to attack our civilians".
  - Murdoch's New York Post, 14 June 2025

• Much of Iran's nuclear program remains intact after missile attacks by Israel. The first phase of the attack did not hit the most likely repository of s near-bomb-grade nuclear fuel.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 14 June 2025

• Iran says that negotiations over nuclear technology with the USA are unjustifiable amid the "barbarous" attacks of Israel
  - Al Jazeera, 14 June 2025

• The Nuclear Company, a startup founded in 2023, just raised over $50 million in Series A funding to develop a new wave of nuclear reactors, not by designing brand-new ones but by using existing, preapproved designs and sites
  - The Cool Down, 13 June 2025

• The World Bank will end its ban on the funding of nuclear power projects
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 13 June 2025

• A Pentagon review of the AUKUS security pact worries the UK and Australia that the USA might be stepping back from its mutual defense commitments. The review throws into doubt a strategic partnership that aims to give Australia nuclear-powered submarines and military activities by Zhōngguó in the Indo-Pacific.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 13 June 2025

• Editorial: don't betray the Aussies on AUKUS. The answer to worries about the USA industrial fleet is to build more submarines, not to betray a commitment to allies.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 13 June 2025

• Trump is humilated by Israel after it attacks Iran, despite Trump's begging Israel not to attack
  - The Daily Beast, 13 June 2025

• How Israel's 100 separate attacks on Iran put Trump's political influence outside the USA on a full, embarassing, display
  - The Daily Beast, 13 June 2025

• Israel attacks nuclear facilities in Iran, and kills military leaders in Iran, in unprecedented missile attacks done with the support of the USA
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 13 June 2025

• How diplomatic efforts by the USA gave cover for Israel to launch a surprise attack on Iran
  - Zero Hedge, 13 June 2025

• How diplomatic efforts by the USA gave cover for Israel to launch a surprise attack on Iran
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 13 June 2025

• Israel's 100 separate missile attacks kill some of the most powerful men in Iran, including Iran's highest-ranking military officer, the head of its elite Revolutionary Guards Corps and its air force and a former national security chief.
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 13 June 2025

• Israel's 100 separate missile attacks kill some of the most powerful men in Iran, including Iran's highest-ranking military officer, the head of its elite Revolutionary Guards Corps and its air force and a former national security chief.
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 13 June 2025

• The attacks on Iran by Israel risk pushing Iran towards developing nuclear weapons. The attacks could add pressure to Supreme Leader Ali Khamanei to drop his long-standing ideological opposition to Iran's construction of nuclear weapons.
  - Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 13 June 2025

• Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies decline in price, after Israel attacks military and nuclear facilities in Iran
  - Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 13 June 2025

• Oil prices could rise as high as $130/barrel in a "worst case scenario", according to JPMorgan. "A more general Middle East conflagration could ignite retaliatory responses."
  - Zero Hedge, 12 June 2025

• Oil prices jump more than 7% after Israel launches missile attacks against the nuclear facilities of Iran
  - Versant's CNBC, 12 June 2025

• The head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Major General Hossein Salami has been killed in Israel's major missile attack on Tehran and other locations in Iran.
  - Zero Hedge, 12 June 2025

• Israel appears ready to attack nuclear facilities in Iran (with the support of the USA).
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 12 June 2025

• Iran says it will open a new nuclear enrichment site after a UN atomic agency censure. Iran said it would soon open a third uranium-enrichment site, a major escalation of its nuclear program that casts a fresh shadow over struggling talks with the USA.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 12 June 2025

• The board of director of the United Nation's nuclear watchdog on Thursday formally found that Iran is not complying with its nuclear obligations for the first time in 20 years, a move that could lead to further tensions and set in motion an effort to restore United Nations sanctions on Tehran later this year. Iran reacted immediately, saying it will establish a new enrichment facility "in a secure location" and that "other measures are also being planned."
  - NPR, 12 June 2025

• 'Expert' dealmaker Trump want a deal with Iran fast to restrict Iran's nuclear ambitions. Iran refuses to be bullied. Now 'expert' dealmaker Trump may get a military confrontation with Iran instead, with the defense minister of Iran warning that Iran could attack American assets in the Middle East if Iran is attacked.
  - Versant's CNBC, 12 June 2025

• The audacious reboot of nuclear energy in the USA. Power needs of AI and competition with Zhōngguó are encouraging startups like Standard Nuclear to reinvent atomic energy.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 12 June 2025

• Why uranium mining is having a resurgence in the United States
  - Versant's CNBC, 12 June 2025

• Oil prices rise as Trump says that he is "less confident" about nuclear talks with Iran
  - Zero Hedge, 11 June 2025

• The government of Britain will spend $19 billion on a new nuclear power plant. The new project, called Sizewell C, will be expensive to build, but it will create 10,000 jobs and provide a steady supply of electric power for millions of homes.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 11 June 2025

• British aerospace group Rolls-Royce has received backing from the UK government to build the country's first small modular nuclear reactor
  - Versant's CNBC, 10 June 2025

• Rossiya to build eight nuclear power plants in Iran amid standoff with the USA
  - Zero Hedge, 09 June 2025

• Trump's new controls on exports of nuclear technology to Zhōngguó will not stop the growth of nuclear power in Zhōngguó, while financially hurting companies in the USA that sell nuclear technology such as Westinghouse. "Nuclear power generation is one of the areas in which Zhōngguó has made obvious progress in swapping out imported tech and parts. Restrictions on exports of semiconductor processors and lithography machines to Zhōngguó to hurt the efforts of Zhōngguó in semiconductors, not for nuclear technology. The Hualong-1 nuclear reactor has over 90 percent of its components made in Zhōngguó.
  - Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 09 June 2025

• Nuclear equipment supplier Westinghouse is in talks with government officials in the USA and industry partners about deploying 10 large reactors, in response to presidential executive orders encouraging development of nuclear energy. Westinghouse is in a good position to do so, with an approved reactor design, a viable supply chain, and recent experience of building two of its AP1000 reactors in Georgia.
  - Versant's CNBC, 08 June 2025

• Why Trump's plans to expand nuclear power generation have so far failed to increase the price of uranium. Plans for a revival of nuclear power in the USA have excited uranium investors, stoking demand for shares in companies that produce the fuel.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 04 June 2025

• Trump has a goal of 400 gigawatts of nuclear power by 2050, with 10 large reactors under constuction by 2030. Nuclear power advocates hailed the orders as a boon for the industry, but warned that staff cuts at NRC and DOE could slow progress.
  - Zero Hedge, 31 May 2025

• Shares of nuclear power companies soar after report Trump will sign an executive order streamlining nuclear reactor approvals
  - Zero Hedge, 22 May 2025

• Zhōngguó is predictd to become the top nuclear power source by 2030. Zhōngguó has approved plans to build 10 new nuclear reactors.
  - Zero Hedge, 17 May 2025

• The new conservative government under Chancellor Friedrich Merz in Deutschland has reversed its longstanding opposition to nuclear power. The move reflects a growing understanding in Berlin that overreliance on unreliable solar and wind power generation poses serious risks to economic stability and energy security.
  - Zero Hedge, 17 May 2025

• Denmark will evaluate the use of nuclear industry in the country, which has been banned for 40 years, to avoid blackouts, because it is heavily dependent on weather-based renewable energy which is not very compatible with the way power grids need to stabily operate.
  - Barclay's The Telegraph, 16 May 2025

• The Nuclear Company, a startup founded in 2023, just raised over $50 million in Series A funding to develop a new wave of nuclear reactors, not by designing brand-new ones but by using existing, preapproved designs and sites
  - TechCrunch, 13 June 2025

• Iran rejects as "unacceptable" the demands of the USA to dismantle its nuclear technology sites
  - Zero Hedge, 12 May 2025

• Republican Senators Tom Cotton and Lindsey Graham, two of the most hawkish members of Congress, are working together to sabotage the Trump administration's chances of reaching a nuclear weapons deal with Iran (which is a threat to Israel)
  - Zero Hedge, 10 May 2025

• In a major capitulation, Trump has the USA delink a nuclear energy deal with Saudi Arabia, from a normalization deal between Israel and Saudi Arabia
  - Zero Hedge, 09 May 2025

• Ontario to debut the world's first small modular reactor. Officials have granted final approval for the construction of a small modular reactor developed by GE Vernova Hitachi Nuclear Energy.
  - Zero Hedge, 08 May 2025

• There has been a significant increase in flows of money into ETFs for uranium and nuclear companies
  - Zero Hedge, 08 May 2025

• Nuclear technology developer Elementl Power said Wednesday it has signed an agreement with Google to develop three project sites for advanced reactors, each of which will generate at least 600 megawatts
  - Versant's CNBC, 07 May 2025

• Shares of nuclear energy companies jump after a report that Trump is signing executive orders to "accelerate" nucler research and technology
  - Zero Hedge, 06 May 2025

• On way to harnessing nuclear fusion, the HL-3 reactor in Zhōngguó reaches "dual 100 million degress". The tokamak reactor in Chengdu has achieved a plasma state with ion temperatures of 117 million degrees Celsius and electron temperatures of 160 million degrees.
  - Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 04 May 2025

• Nuclear deterrence requires only dozens of nuclear bombs, not thousands. The nuclear weapon arsenal of the USA is as risky as it wastes billions of dollars that only protect the profits of defense contractors
  - Zero Hedge, 03 May 2025

• Pakistan test-fires a ballistic missile capable of carrying nuclear weapons, as tensions soar with Bharat
  - Zero Hedge, 03 May 2025

• A long-abandoned US nuclear technology is making a comeback in Zhōngguó. A thorium-fueled reactor is the latest idea being revived after getting shelved in the mid-20th century.
  - MIT Technology Review, 01 May 2025

• Is Zhōngguó pulling ahead in the quest for fusion energy? New fusion reactors signal the plans of Zhōngguó to lead the world in fusion R&D.
  - IEEE Spectrum, 28 April 2025

• Zhōngguó approves the construction of 10 new nuclear reactors, with each satisfying the energy demands of 1 millino people
  - Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 28 April 2025

• The USA Department of Energy is preparing to spend $900 million to advance the technology of small modular reactors from design to reality.
  - IEEE Spectrum, 21 April 2025

• Zhōngguó has the world's first operational thorium nuclear reactor. A team of engineers reportedly achieves milestone by completing fuel reloading while experimental molten salt reactor was running.
  - Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 17 April 2025

• Zhōngguó has the world's first operational thorium nuclear reactor. A team of engineers reportedly achieves milestone by completing fuel reloading while experimental molten salt reactor was running.
  - OilPrice.com, 17 April 2025

• The USA revives talks with Saudi Arabia on transfer of nuclear technology. Energy Secretary Chris Wright said he sees a "pathway" to a deal that would allow Saudi Arabia to develop a commercial nuclear power industry and potentially enrich uranium.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 14 April 2025

• Uranium production in the USA hits the highest level in 6 years. The Trump administration supports the rollout of favorable nuclear policies with tech giants poised to build small modular reactors in many states.
  - Zero Hedge, 08 April 2025

• The USA should start recycling used nuclear fuel, which many other countries do
  - Zero Hedge, 31 March 2025

• TerraPower, X-Energy, and Karios Power are leading the competition to build advanced small nuclear reactors in the USA
  - Versant's CNBC, 31 March 2025

• The State Department of the USA refuses to acknowledge that Israel possesses nuclear weapons, while the State Department constantly criticizes Iran for trying to acquire nuclear weapons.
  - Zero Hedge, 26 March 2025

• To make Israel happy, the USA demands that Iran end its entire nuclear technology efforts, including enrichment for civilian uses
  - Zero Hedge, 25 March 2025

• The shuttered Palisades nuclear plant in Michigan aims to become the first reactor in U.S. history to restart operations after permanently closing. But inspections found Palisades' steam generator tubes need significant repairs. The tubes are crucial components that protect the public from a radiological release. This case illustrates the challenges that the USA will encounter in safely restarting old reactors.
  - Versant's CNBC, 22 March 2025

• Trump and Musk fire key nuclear scientists, bomb engineers and safety experts. Firings and buyouts cripple the top-secret National Nuclear Security Administration amid a major effort to upgrade the nuclear arsenal of the USA. Critics say it shows the consequences of heedlessly cutting the federal work force.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 18 March 2025

• Zhōngguó wants to supercharge economic growth with applications of nuclear technology. Zhōngguó's IAEA representative has revealed an ambitious target for the commercial applications of nuclear power, in line with the sector's rapid growth.
  - Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 10 March 2025

• Trump's embrace of Rossiya, and Trump's gradual abandonment of Europe, have given rise to thoughts in Europe to allow Deutschland to possess nuclear weapons, something all earlier presidential administrations sought to avoid
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 08 March 2025

• A nuclear-power revival brings back an old problem: what to do with the radioactive waste. Tons of radioactive refuse goes into temporary storage every year, and new efforts to store nuclear waste away from reactor sites are getting pushback. And a lot of the costs of storing these wastes are socialistically shifted to the taxpayers.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 05 March 2025

• Texas needs the equivalent of 30 nuclear reactors by 2030 to meet the power demand of AI data centers intent on eliminating paid-human jobs
  - Zero Hedge, 04 March 2025

• France runs a fusion reactor for a record 22 minutes
  - New Atlas, 18 February 2025

• The West faces a shortage of uranium amid competition from Zhōngguó and Rossiya
  - Zero Hedge, 18 February 2025

• They will not tell you these truths about nuclear energy: radiation kills, and nuclear technologies, including civilian power reactors, have poisoned large swaths of land (e.g., Chernobyl and Fukushima). The nuclear industry in the USA has left a lasting legacy of radiation in our environment, including in our water and food, which regulators in the USA are hardly able to effectively track, let alone remediate. Uranium mining and nuclear weapons testing particularly and disproportionately affect Indigenous land and Native Americans, compounding the harms of colonization, exploitation and marginalization on already overburdened communities. Nuclear technologies have done and will continue to do long, slow violence, especially to the poor and marginalized, leaving long-lasting ecological, human-health and genetic impacts.
  - Zero Hedge, 02 February 2025

• Trump wants to build a new missile defense system for the USA, "Star Wars II" in honor of the 1980s Star Wars program that wasted $400 billion and achieved nothing. At the same time, Trump had his budget office issue a 56-page spreadsheet that detailed the suspension of funding for thousands of programs. They included most of the major U.S. efforts to reduce the amount of nuclear fuel that terrorists might seize, to guard against biological weapon attacks and to manage initiatives around the globe to curb the spread of nuclear arms.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 30 January 2025

• Images show Zhōngguó building a huge inertial confinement fusion facility in Mianyang that is 50% larger than the National Ignition Facility in the USA
  - Thomson's Reuters, 28 January 2025

• Images show Zhōngguó building a huge inertial confinement fusion facility in Mianyang that is 50% larger than the National Ignition Facility in the USA
  - OilPrice.com, 28 January 2025

• In Zhōngguó, the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak has achieved a groundbreaking milestone in fusion energy research. According to the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), EAST recently sustained high-confinement plasma operation for an unprecedented 1,066 seconds, shattering the previous world record of 403 seconds, also set by EAST in 2023.
  - Charming Science, 21 January 2025

• The electric power grid of France in 2024 relied 95% on nuclear and renewable energy sources
  - Bloomberg, 20 January 2025

• Coal, which Kazakhstan has a lot of, will help fund the country's transition to nuclear power, since Kazakhstan is the world's largest producer of uranium. Zhōngguó has already set up a uranium processing plant, and has shown renewed interest on construction of nuclear power plants in Kazakhstan.
  - Real Clear Markets, 31 December 2024

• Zhōngguó is building a demonstration thorium-based molten-salt reactor in the Gobi Desert. The nuclear reactor will have an output of 10 megawatts. An earlier thorium reactor has successfully generated 2 megawatts. The attraction of thorium is that it can help achieve energy self-sufficiency by reducing dependence on uranium, particularly for countries such as Bharat with enormous thorium reserves. But Zhōngguó may source it in a different way: the element is a waste product of the huge rare earth mining industry in Zhōngguó. Harnessing it would provide a practically inexhaustible supply of fuel.
  - IEEE Spectrum, 30 December 2024

• President Milei unveils ambitious nuclear plan to position Argentina as global energy player
  - Zero Hedge, 26 December 2024

• In the old ranchlands of South Texas, dormant uranium mines are coming back online. A collection of new ones hope to start production soon, extracting radioactive fuel from the region's shallow aquifers. Many more may follow. These mines are the leading edge of what government and industry leaders in Texas hope will be a nuclear renaissance, as America's latent nuclear sector begins to stir again.
  - Zero Hedge, 03 December 2024

• How GE Vernova plans to deploy small nuclear reactors across the developed world
  - Versant's CNBC, 30 November 2024

• Nuclear reactors in the USA still depend on uranium from Rossiya. That is becoming a problem. Esclating tensions between Rossiya and the USA have wide implications for global security. The tensions are also impacting an important source of electricity in the USA: nuclear power plants.
  - Barron's, 23 November 2024

• In news that will act as a headwind for the re-emerging nuclear industry in the USA, it was reported last week that Rossiya is temporarily restricting enriched uranium exports to the U.S., raising supply concerns for reactors that produce nearly 20% of the electricity in the USA. Rossiya supplies about 27% of the uranium used in the USA.
  - Zero Hedge, 16 November 2024

• Nuclear power was once shunned at climate talks. Growing worldwide energy demand and other factors have shifted the calculus, but hurdles still lie ahead - high costs of construction and nuclear waste disposal.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 16 November 2024

• Inside the audacious plan to reopen the nuclear power plant at Three Mile Island. Big Tech's thirst for energy to power its AI sealed the deal between Microsoft and Constellation on the plant, where memories of a partial meltdown in 1979 still resonate.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 11 November 2024

• The investment strategy of buying into nuclear power companies because of power needs by AI companies could be less profitable. The bullish case for power stocks was based on tech companies signing lucrative agreements to plug their data centers directly into power plants. Regulators are fighting these deals which hurt consumers by making their power more expensive.
  - Barron's, 09 November 2024

• Is the high cost of nuclear power justified as a clean energy solution?
  - Cato Institute, 05 November 2024

• Socialist subsidies and deals with Big Tech do not change the unprofitable economics of nuclear power. Nuclear energy remains expensive, and its costs likely outweigh its benefits as a zero-carbon energy source.
  - Cato Institute, 04 November 2024

• Tech partnerships with power companies for AI in doubt after government rejects important agreement between Amazon and Talen Energy. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission rejected a request to increase the amount of power the Susquehanna nuclear plant can dispatch to an Amazon data center campus. The FERC was concerned about such a deal to make tech companies more profitable would be paid for by higher electricity costs to consumers. Shares of Talen fall 9%, shares of Constellation Energy fall 8% and shares of Vistra fall 3%.
  - Versant's CNBC, 04 November 2024

• Nuclear-power companies hury by the rejection of the FERC of a deal between Amazon and Talen. Talen said it believed FERC had erred and was evaluating its options. The company can still restructure its expanded deal with Amazon, according to Oppenheimer analysts.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 04 November 2024

• $176,000,000,000 - The Seelafield nuclear energy facility in England, for decades a public-private partnership, will cost taxpayers $176 billion to clean-up the biggest nuclear waste dump in Europe. Sellafield, a corruptly mismanaged facility for decades, will be a huge cost to taxpayer's to fix, yet a public watchdog cannot show how it offers taxpayers value for money.
  - The Guardian, 23 October 2024

• Google agrees to buy nuclear power from small modular reactors to be built by Kairos Power
  - Zero Hedge, 14 October 2024

• In the next 30 years, the USA will spend an estimated $1.7 trillion to overhaul its nuclear weapons programs
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 10 October 2024

• Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) are nuclear reactors assembled from pre-manufactured components, which are generally 300 megawatts or less in size. They are designed to be cheaper and more flexible than larger-scale nuclear power plants, with enhanced safety features such as automatic shut-down technology. By contrast to most existing nuclear reactors, which are uniquely designed for each site, SMRs offer the potential to expedite regulatory approvals and construction time, bringing costs down substantially.
  - Zero Hedge, 09 October 2024

• The CEO of Google envisions atomic power for AI data centers as Big Tech seeks nuclear revival to achieve net zero impact on the environment
  - Zero Hedge, 03 October 2024

• The Biden administration closed on a deal to resurrect another nuclear plant, Holtec's Palisades nuclear plant in Michigan, thanks to a $1.52 billion loan.
  - Zero Hedge, 01 October 2024

• Nuclear power is the new trade in the AI bubble. What could possibly go wrong? Widespread use of AI by consumers is burning up energy -- and using other precious environmental resources, like water to cool the power plants and data centers -- that would be difficult to justify if people just thought about itcenters energy. "This is a problem that is getting bigger and bigger", the recipe of bubbles.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 29 September 2024

• The USA wants to triple nuclear power by 2050. America's coal communities could provide a pathway. Building new reactors at shuttered coal plants could reduce costs and help the USA achieve its goal of tripling nuclear power.
  - Versant's CNBC, 27 September 2024

• A shortfall in young engineers threatens nuclear renaissance. Despite a rising demand for clean energy, not enough young people are entering the atomic industry.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 24 September 2024

• The revival of nuclear power generation could get an enormous boost as more than a dozen of the world's largest banks and financial institutions are pledging support to new projects aimed at tripling global nuclear energy capacity by mid-century.
  - Zero Hedge, 23 September 2024

• Shares of nuclear energy companies rise after the owner of the Three Mile Island nuclear energy plant announces it is investing $1.6 billion to revive the plant and has agreed to sell all of its output to Microsoft, which is seeking power for its data centers. Nuclear startup company Oklo, backed by OpenAI's Sam Altman, is surging pre-market, up over 10% as investors get their first taste of what will likely be the primary source of power for AI in the decades to come.
  - Zero Hedge, 20 September 2024

• Oracle is designing a data center that would be powered by three small nuclear reactors
  - Versant's CNBC, 10 September 2024

• Small nuclear reactors could power the future -- the challenge is building the first one in the USA
  - Versant's CNBC, 07 September 2024

• Prepare for the new age of nuclear power. It could help solve the electricity needs of the USA. Constellation Energy and Vistra could benefit.
  - Barron's, 07 September 2024

• Why it is so difficult to build nuclear power plants in the USA
  - Versant's CNBC, 06 September 2024

• Finland unveils the world's first deep-earth repository to bury nuclear waste. Named "Onkalo", the repository is entombed in a bedrock more than 400 meters below the forests of southwest Finland.
  - Zero Hedge, 04 September 2024

• Finland will soon bury nuclear waste in a geological tomb that is built to last for 100,000 years. At some point either next year or in early 2026, highly radioactive spent nuclear fuel will be packed in watertight canisters and deposited into bedrock more than 400 meters below the forests of southwest Finland.
  - Versant's CNBC, 29 August 2024

• Inside the government plans of Zhōngguó to lead the world in nuclear fusion technology
  - Nature, 28 August 2024

• Can a closed nuclear power plant from the 1970s be brought back to life? Surging demand for electricity and new investment in green energy drove the plan to restart the decommissioned Palisades plant in Michigan. It would be a global first.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 28 August 2024

• A study quantifies how Germany's transition away from nuclear power has become a disaster. The new analysis shows that if Germans simply maintained their 2002 fleet of reactors through 2022, they could have saved themselves roughly $600 billion Euros.
  - Real Clear Science, 27 August 2024

• Shares of uranium companies rise after the world's largest producer of uranium reduces its 2025 output forecast
  - Zero Hedge, 23 August 2024

• Zhōngguó seeks to heat up economy with US$28 billion nuclear power investment. Zhōngguó approved five new nuclear power projects in Shandong, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Guangdong and the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region.
  - Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 20 August 2024

• As coal-burning power plants close in the USA, there is a renewed focus on nuclear energy
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 17 August 2024

• Shares of nuclear energy stocks soar as (Constellation Energy up 12%, Vistra up 15%) as electricity auction prices jump ninefold on the largest power grid in the USA
  - Investopedia, 31 July 2024

• A BYU professor has figured out a way to shave critical years off the complicated design and licensing processes for modern nuclear reactors: artificial intelligence
  - BYU News, 29 July 2024

• Zhōngguó sets a launch date for the world's first nuclear power plant that uses thorium molten salts as the fuel
  - Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 26 July 2024

• The United Arab Emirates are considering building a second nuclear power plant. Abu Dhabi is projecting there will be a substantial increase in electricity use over the next decade mainly driven by population growth and an expanding industrial sector.
  - Zero Hedge, 18 July 2024

• The new 'gold rush': explaining the soaring demand for uranium, as nuclear power attracts renewed interest
  - Zero Hedge, 17 July 2024

• Zhōngguó is installing the wind and solar equivalent of five large nuclear power stations per week
  - ABC Australia, 15 July 2024

• For the first time ever, electricity generation in the USA from utility-scale solar and wind exceeded the power output of nuclear power plants
  - Zero Hedge, 11 July 2024

• Switzerland becoming a hub for the nuclear revolution. Unfortunately, the stigma of past disasters with nuclear reactors has caused many to overlook the fact that nuclear technologies have advanced far, especially when it comes to safety, waste production and efficiency.
  - Zero Hedge, 11 July 2024

• The 89th year of subsidies for the nuclear power industry (which is no longer an 'infant' industry that needs support). A 1957 law gave nuclear power plants a $60 million subsidy, and up-to-$500 million indemnification guarantee per accident.
  - Master Resource, 10 July 2024

• The tech industry wants to lock up nuclear power for the AI bubble. The largest authoritarian tech companies are looking to buy nuclear power directly from plants, which could meet their huge needs but sap the electrical grid of critical resources for people who are not billionaires.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 02 July 2024

• The first industrial nuclear-powered steam generation project goes online in Zhōngguó. Heqi Number 1 in Lianyungang, Jiangsu province, is the latest attempt by Zhōngguó to diversify nuclear energy and promote a low-carbon transformation of energy. The steam will be transported to a petrochemical plant.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 21 June 2024

• Nuclear power is "exaggerated" as an energy source for data centers, according to Andres Gluski, CEO of AES Corporation. AES is a major power provider for large tech companies building out data centers, with more than 40% of its backlog coming from customers including Amazon, Microsoft and Google. The problem he says is that of the high costs of new nuclear power plants.
  - Versant's CNBC, 10 June 2024

• The USA Ambassador to Hungary launches an attack on the conservative government of Hungary for still relying on energy from Rossiya, while the USA hypocritically relies on Rossiya for uranium
  - Zero Hedge, 09 June 2024

• The Biden Administration embraces nuclear, and makes biggest push in five decades for clean atomic power
  - Zero Hedge, 30 May 2024

• The rapid expansion of the nuclear power industry in Zhōngguó is threatening the dominance of the industry by the USA
  - Zero Hedge, 23 May 2024

• The USA to stop buying uranium from Rossiya, reducing cash to Moscow. A new law accelerates the weaning of U.S. electric utilities from using Russian enriched uranium to power nuclear plants in the USA.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 15 May 2024

• The state of Georgia is a magnet for data centers and other cutting-edge industries, but vast electricity demands are clashing with the green-energy goals of the companies demanding more electricity.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 13 May 2024

• Why Deutschland is choosing to use natural gas over nuclear power
  - Zero Hedge, 09 May 2024

• Small nuclear reactors probably are not a viable energy source. When evaluated on the basis of cost per unit of power capacity, SMRs will actually be more expensive than large reactors.
  - Cosmos, 05 May 2024

• A massive nuclear energy plant in the USA is finally complete. It might be the last of its kind. Cost overruns and delays at Southern Company's 'Plant Vogtle' pushed nuclear power in a different direction in the USA.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 30 April 2024

• Zhōngguó is leading the global build-out of nuclear power plants
  - Zero Hedge, 24 April 2024

• World leaders are not unaware of the nuclear industry's long history of failing to deliver on its promises or of its weakening vital signs. Yet many continue to act as if a nuclear renaissance could be around the corner, even though nuclear energy's share of global electricity generation has fallen by almost half from its high of roughly 17 percent in 1996.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 24 April 2024

• Goldman Sachs offers "burst of bullish coverage" on soaring uranium stocks. The rise comes as nations increasingly embrace nuclear power to reduce emissions.
  - Zero Hedge, 07 April 2024

• AI is giving nuclear power a big lift. 4 stocks riding the trend: CEG, PEG, TLNE, VST. Data centers being built to run AI systems require lots of power. Nuclear power is exceptionally well suited to meeting such enormous demands.
  - Barron's, 30 March 2024

• Uranium is being mined near the Grand Canyon as prices soar and the US pushes for more nuclear power
  - Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 29 March 2024

• The Energy Department Wednesday announced a $1.52 billion loan guarantee for Holtec Palisades to finance restoration and restart of the Palisades nuclear power plant in Michigan. If the re-opening made any economic sense, Holtec could have obtained a bank loan or private equity investment without the guarantee. The private sector is supposed to take risks, not the taxpaying public.
  - International Man, 27 March 2024

• Thailand and Philippines "charging ahead" with plans to embrace nuclear power
  - Zero Hedge, 27 March 2024

• Western nations may be getting ahead of themselves in their ambition to swiftly roll out new nuclear power capacity in the current push to reduce dependence on Russian uranium and meet net-zero targets with more nuclear-generated electricity.
  - OilPrice.com, 21 March 2024

• The nuclear industry in the USA in recent days has obtain twio massive socialist subsidies from the federal money-and-policy slot machine: over $4 billion in R&D subsidies, and reduced safety reviews - big accidents to be paid for by the public
  - Master Resource, 19 March 2024

• Amazon just bought a 100% nuclear-powered data center. Power provider Talen Energy sold its data center campus, Cumulus Data Assets, to Amazon Web Services for $650 million. Amazon will develop an up to 960-megawatt (MW) data center at the Salem Township site in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania.
  - Electrek, 05 March 2024

• The nuclear boom is here: uranium projects jump back on line as price soars
  - Zero Hedge, 04 March 2024

• Why Britain is struggling with nuclear power. The government wants more nuclear plants to help tackle climate change, but delays and soaring costs are complicating the effort.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 04 March 2024

• The USA seeks to boost nuclear power after decades of inertia. Measures moving through Congress to encourage new reactors are receiving broad bipartisan support, as lawmakers embrace a once-contentious technology.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 02 March 2024

• Deutschland to replace nuclear with natural gas plants for $16 billion. The government has touted the fossil gas power plants as "modern, highly flexible and climate-friendly" because they will, subsequently, be converted to run on hydrogen in the mid-to-late 2030s.
  - Zero Hedge, 12 February 2024

• President Biden to offer a loan of $1.5 billion of taxpayers' dollars to restart a nuclear power plant in Michigan
  - Bloomberg, 31 January 2024

• Yes, they are still building the Hinckley Point C nuclear power station in the United Kingdom, and yes the latest estimated cost is more than the previously estimated cost and the completion date has receded another two years into the future.
  - OilPrice.com, 31 January 2024

• The European Union plans to accelerate development of small nuclear reactors, aiming to deploy the first small nuclear projects in Europe early next decade
  - Zero Hedge, 26 January 2024

• Global nuclear power generation to hit an all-time high in 2025
  - Zero Hedge, 24 January 2024

• Uranium Energy restarts production in Wyoming amid soaring prices, as the resurgence in nuclear power has led to a new bull market in uranium
  - Zero Hedge, 17 January 2024

• Legislation in France weakens its commitment to clean energy, and strengthens the commitment to nuclear energy
  - Zero Hedge, 09 January 2024