Global Nuclear News archive — page 4
How a Nuclear Plant Rides Out the Loss of Offsite Power: The IAEA's Review of Barakah Unit 3
Barakah Unit 3 lost offsite power on May 17 and ran on emergency diesel generators until grid power was restored; a six-member IAEA team reviewed the response on 12-20 October and recommended improvements in three areas.
Why Does the U.S. Send Nuclear Agreements to Congress? The Resolution of Disapproval on the U.S.–Saudi 123 Agreement
Senators Merkley and Markey introduced a joint resolution of disapproval on October 15 against the U.S.–Saudi 123 Agreement transmitted to Congress on September 14, citing enrichment, reprocessing and IAEA Additional Protocol concerns; a 90-day review applies and Senate consideration is possible after November 29.
Microreactors Head to an Army Base and a University Campus: Fort Benning and Taiwan's National Tsing Hua University
Fort Benning surveyed candidate sites on October 16 for three planned Radiant microreactors with a 2028 first-operation target, while National Tsing Hua University signed a technical exchange and feasibility assessment agreement with NuCube on October 19 as its THOR research reactor nears 2040 decommissioning.
Calculating a Plasma Disruption Before It Happens: ITER Highlights the Open-Source Release of the JOREK Code
ITER reported on October 19, 2026 that the JOREK MHD code is available to researchers worldwide under LGPLv3.0-or-later, supporting disruption and shattered pellet injection studies.
The Hottest Wall in a Fusion Reactor: ITER's First Series-Produced Divertor Inner Vertical Target
F4E and Research Instruments completed ITER's first series IVT (delivered 6 October 2026), the first of 58 units F4E must supply, designed for heat fluxes up to 20 MW/m².
A Cancer Isotope With a 7.2-Hour Half-Life: How Astatine-211 Reaches Patients
Ekalia (IBA and Framatome) and Telix announced on October 19, 2026 a U.S. At-211 production agreement, with the first unit planned at RLS Radiopharmacies' Trevose site; licenses, specifications and start date are still to come.
A Floating Nuclear Plant That Sells Power to an Island: The Rosatom–Indonesia Agreement
Rosatom and PT Pembangkit Listrik Nuklir signed an agreement on October 16 to supply northern Halmahera with power from two FPU-100 floating units totalling 200 MW, under a model where Rosatom owns and operates the units and the customer pays for the electricity.
Why Norway Is Sending Its Spent Fuel to Sweden, Only to Take It Back
Studsvik and NND agreed on October 16, 2026 to manage about 16.5 tonnes of Norwegian research reactor spent fuel, with a minimum obligation of about SEK 875.5 million and an expected total of SEK 3-4 billion through 2055.
Who Makes HALEU, the Fuel for Next-Generation Reactors? Centrus Buys a Key Supplier and South Africa Forms a Joint Venture
Centrus completed its roughly $116 million acquisition of Westerman Holdings on top of more than 1,900 kg of HALEU output and a $900 million DOE expansion contract targeting 12 tonnes a year, while QLE and Necsa agreed an 80:20 HALEU joint-venture framework in South Africa.
Why Amazon Is Funding Nuclear Development: Where the 960 MW Indiana SMR Project Stands Today
AEP and X-energy signed a joint development agreement on 2026-10-19 to study 12 Xe-100 units (960 MW) near the former Breed coal plant in Sullivan County, Indiana, with milestone-based development funding from Amazon.