From the world’s first in-reactor thorium breeding confirmation to a dual PWR-HTGR plant and commercial supercritical CO₂ generation, China is assembling a vertically integrated advanced nuclear ecosystem. The breadth of activity signals a coordinated push toward fuel independence and industrial deployment. While the bulk of focus on advanced nuclear technology has honed in tightly on…
As countries continue to strive for increasingly clean, pollution-free sources of energy, China’s plan to transition away from coal is a unique one. According to Interesting Engineering, it is looking into converting coal power plants into nuclear plants. This would involve compact, “meltdown-proof” reactors and use infrastructure already in place at the plants to link…
Late last week, US President Donald Trump used separate social media posts to announce several new tariffs, described later as the “bonfire of the bathroom vanities”. That’s because there’s a new 50 per cent tariff on imports of kitchen and bathroom cabinets, plus 100 per cent on pharmaceuticals, 30 per cent on upholstered furniture and 25 per…
For the first time, researchers at the University of California San Diego witnessed diamond capsules undergo shock-induced amorphization, a major discovery with implications for fusion energy. According to Interesting Engineering, they used powerful lasers to compress a diamond capsule and simulate nuclear fusion processes. The goal is to create a symmetrical implosion that releases nuclear…
Most STARTUPS need time to prove that they can be trusted with investors’ money, let alone dangerous technologies. But not Fusion Energy Tech, a Chinese company in the city of Hefei that was carved out two years ago from a nuclear-research lab. In July it announced that it would be commercialising a plasma technology derived…
TOKYO – Tokamak Energy, the UK’s leading nuclear fusion technology developer, has become part of Japan’s energy innovation strategy. After several years of building relations with Japanese government agencies, corporations and academic and scientific institutions, Tokamak Energy established a subsidiary in Tokyo in February and won a “green transformation” award from the Tokyo Metropolitan Government…