⚛️ Proud of the #KairosPower team. #SamsungCT 🇰🇷 has signed a binding term sheet to invest up to $100 million and join the EPC team for Hermes 2, the grid-connected 50 MWe #KPFHR demonstration plant in Oak Ridge, Tennessee 🇺🇸. Exciting step toward commercial #AdvancedNuclear.

⚛️ #EDF's #Nuward wants 10 #SMR units in Europe by 2035: #France 🇫🇷 first, #Italy 🇮🇹 second, then possibly #Poland 🇵🇱, #Belgium 🇧🇪 and #Finland 🇫🇮. Construction could start in 2030, target about €100/MWh. Could building #Nuclear reactors as a series finally cut costs?

⚛️ Blue Energy has filed with the #NRC for its Texas gas-to-nuclear plant: gas turbines first, then up to five BWRX-300 #SMR units reusing the same balance of plant. Second half of the application comes in 2027. Does reaching this stage make the model credible to lenders?

⚛️ Six US states are exploring hosting the whole #Nuclear fuel cycle on one site, #SpentFuel disposal included. Why that works: a repository alone is a burden few states want, while a campus is an industry. Would an industrial package change how your region sees hosting waste?

⚛️ At Kuosheng the #SpentFuel never left the core, so #Taiwan cannot inspect the reactor it wants to restart. The dry store is built but unlicensed. Casks are safe and keep the fuel retrievable, and a repository can follow later. On an island grid, waiting has its own cost.

⚛️ #IAEA sees #Nuclear capacity at 3.4 times today's level by 2060, with a third of the current fleet retiring first. A retiring site keeps its grid connection, land and licensing history. Retirement and expansion can be the same project. Which sites would you rebuild on?

⚛️ #SouthKorea 🇰🇷 may fund up to 8 #Nuclear reactors in the US, around $120B, while #Westinghouse plans 18 #AP1000 units in #India 🇮🇳 by 2047. Six are operating today, 14 under construction, 5 under contract. Will proven large designs stay ahead while demand grows this fast?

⚛️ #Google just signed a deal for up to 50% of #Finland's Loviisa #Nuclear plant power, 2030 to 2049. 🇫🇮 It backs #Fortum's plan to extend the plant to 2050, while Google builds €13B in Finnish data centers. Could AI demand become how nuclear projects get financed?

⚛️ #DOE just closed $1.9B to restart #DuaneArnold in #Iowa. 🇺🇸 Shut down since 2020 after storm damage, the 615 MW reactor targets 2029 with a 25-yr #Google deal. It's the 3rd US nuclear restart after #Palisades & Three Mile Island. Not every project starts from zero.

⚛️ #Nuclear hit a new global record in 2025: 2,702 TWh, beating 2024's 2,667. 🌍 Capacity grew just 2 GWe (398 to 400), yet generation still hit a record, fleet capacity factor is now 83.7%. What would it take to move nuclear from 9% of global power to much more?

⚛️ #UK's #SMR push is reindustrializing manufacturing. 🇬🇧 #SiemensEnergy will build turbine parts for 3 #RollsRoyce SMRs at #Wylfa in Newcastle, supporting 550+ jobs, Europe's first SMR components made this way. Can a new fleet rebuild the industry that supplies it?

⚛️ #Uzbekistan is using its first #Nuclear plant to build a domestic industry. 🇺🇿 Local content is already 21% of the Jizzakh project, targeting 30%, with 65% of construction by national firms and 7,000 local workers. Can a reactor kickstart an industrial base?

⚛️ #Rosatom is eyeing #Murmansk as a hub to build floating #Nuclear plants at scale, dozens possible down the line. 🇷🇺 Its #Akademik Lomonosov has powered Arctic city Pevek since 2020. Western floating nuclear is still early stage, how fast can it catch up?

⚛️ What if a whole #Nuclear plant could be built off-site and shipped in? 🇨🇦 #Prodigy Clean Energy's 50 MWe transportable plant, reactor-agnostic and installable in ~18 months, targets remote #NewBrunswick communities by the early 2030s. #SMR deployment, no site build.

⚛️ #Palisades just started fuel loading. 🇺🇸 The #Michigan plant, shut down in 2022 and headed for decommissioning, is now on track to be the first US #Nuclear plant ever brought back from that path. #Holtec expects restart this year, ahead of its 2027 supply contract.

⚛️ #Turkey's #Akkuyu just hit a milestone: Unit 2's coolant pipeline is welded. 🇹🇷 Unit 1 goes online in 2026, all four VVER-1200s will eventually supply ~10% of Turkey's power. With #Sinop & a Thrace project already planned, how soon could all four units be running?

⚛️ #ORNL & #INL are 3D-printing #Nuclear pressure vessels using wire-arc manufacturing. 🇺🇸 The US lacks heavy-forging capacity that #Japan, #China, #France & #Russia have. Could #3DPrinting be a faster path to self-sufficiency than rebuilding forging from scratch?

⚛️ #France's 6 new #EPR2 reactors get easier with each one. 🇫🇷 #Penly leads as the pilot, then #Gravelines & #Bugey follow, carrying lessons forward instead of starting from scratch each time. Construction begins 2027. Could sequencing make expansion more predictable?

⚛️ #Myanmar is starting nuclear small: two 55 MW #RITM-200N #SMRs, 110 MW total, with #Rosatom surveys due by end of 2026. 🇲🇲 Like #Uzbekistan, it's skipping the gigawatt reactor to grow into nuclear instead of starting big. Could more countries follow this path?

⚛️ #Nuclear has answers to climate-driven water shortages. 💧 #Hungary's Paks lost cooling water this summer, but options exist: Palo Verde runs on treated wastewater, #Germany's Neckarwestheim uses hybrid cooling, #India's Kalpakkam even makes freshwater via desalination.

⚛️ #Nuclear's next job on the Moon: staying warm. 🚀 #Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost will test #Zeno Power's americium-241 heater through 14 days of lunar darkness. China's Yutu-2 survived the night with a similar system, India's Pragyan didn't. #SpaceNuclear

⚛️ #Finland is close to licensing the world's first permanent spent fuel repository. 🇫🇮 #STUK confirmed #Onkalo meets safety standards, storing fuel 430m underground for 100,000+ yrs. 40+ yrs of work shows disposal must be planned with reactors, not after. #NuclearWaste

⚛️ #Urenco is expanding its New Mexico plant by nearly 50%, adding 2.1M SWU by 2032. 🇺🇸 US utilities already committed to the new capacity, even before their reactors are built. #Nuclear fuel supply is investing ahead of demand, not catching up. #EnergySecurity

⚛️ #Singapore isn't picking a reactor yet, it's building the expertise to choose one. 🇸🇬 With deals across #China, #US, #France, #S. Korea & #UK since 2017, it's training regulators & engineers before committing. IAEA reviews readiness in 2027. #NuclearEnergy #EnergyPolicy

⚛️ What if a #Nuclear project could earn before reactors go online? Blue Energy & #GEVernova's gas+nuclear plant in Texas does just that: gas turbines power a data center by 2030, then 5 BWRX-300 SMRs add 1.5 GW by 2032. Could cut 5 yrs off time-to-power. 💰⚡

⚛️ #Spain just extended #Almaraz's license to 2030, past its 2027/28 shutdown dates. 🇪🇸 It supplies 7%+ of Spain's power. #Energy security concerns moved one plant's timeline, even with the 2035 #Nuclear exit still in place. What stops the rest of the fleet next? ⚡

⚛️ #Africa's first new reactor in 40 yrs is rising in #Egypt. 🇪🇬 #El Dabaa is progressing toward 4.8 GW, while gas causes ~80% of Egypt's power & the blackouts of the past 2 years. #Nuclear here is a hedge against gas volatility, not just a climate move. ⚡

⚛️ #Slovakia's Mochovce 4 just reached first criticality. 🇸🇰 Once at full output, #Nuclear will supply 77.5% of the country's power, surpassing #France's 67%, the world's current highest share. A single 471 MW reactor is enough to take the crown. ⚡

⚛️ #India wants #Nuclear to grow from 7,900 MW to 100 GW by 2047. 🇮🇳 UCIL covers just 30% of fuel needs, mining won't scale until 2036. Parliament's flagging the fuel gap early, before the buildout ramps up. Reactor targets need fuel supply moving at the same pace.

⚛️ #Amazon just withdrew a data center project next to #Constellation's #Nuclear plant in #Maryland. 🏭 Residents never got a straight answer on rates (+15-20% in 2025) at the March open house. That silence is what organized against it. Early answers beat late backlash. ⚡