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Looking back at 2021—Nuclear News October through December

January 7, 2022, 2:59PMNuclear News

This is the fifth of five articles posted today to look back at the top news stories of 2021 for the nuclear community. The full article, "Looking back at 2021,"was published in the January 2022 issue of Nuclear News.

Quite a year was 2021. In the following stories, we have compiled what we feel are the past year’s top news stories from the October-December time frame—please enjoy this recap from a busy year in the nuclear community.

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Design, deliver, repeat: A formula for success in nuclear’s next era

June 30, 2026, 7:08AMNuclear NewsDena Volovar

Conditions for nuclear energy haven’t looked this favorable in a generation. Policy support is building, public support has risen, and demand for reliable power continues to outpace what...

DOE announces $17.5B in conditional loans for AP1000 builds

June 23, 2026, 2:10PMNuclear News

Earlier today, the Department of Energy announced that it has issued a conditional loan commitment to finance the purchase of “long-lead time items needed to rebuild America’s commercial...

NN Asks: Is the U.S. ready for nuclear construction to accelerate?

June 29, 2026, 3:03PMNuclear NewsCraig Stover

Yes, but . . .The United States is better positioned today for nuclear construction than it has been in decades. Some of that comes from the experience gained at Vogtle and V.C. Summer. I was...

INL hosts talk of nuclear successes, next criticalities

June 29, 2026, 12:32PMNuclear News

For just over a year, President Trump’s Executive Order 14301, “Reforming Nuclear Reactor Testing at the Department of Energy,” has loomed large because it pegged a stretch goal to a...

Launching into tomorrow: NRIC guides new era of research and deployment

June 26, 2026, 3:57PMNuclear NewsLucas Geiger

In June 2025, the Department of Energy announced the Reactor Pilot Program, an authorization pathway that allowed reactor developers to partner with the DOE to get first-of-a-kind (FOAK)...

GAIN makes diverse selections for its third round of awards this year

June 26, 2026, 12:27PMNuclear News

p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 8.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Verdana; color: #000000} span.s1 {text-decoration: underline ; color: #0000ff} The Department of Energy’s Gateway for Accelerated...

DOE prepares to demolish Oak Ridge’s Isotope Row buildings

June 25, 2026, 1:01PMNuclear News

Having completed deactivation work, the Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) is set to begin demolition in July of a cluster of highly contaminated buildings at Oak Ridge...

From theory to reality

June 24, 2026, 7:01AMNuclear NewsCraig Piercy

Recently, I spent an afternoon at Kairos Power’s Hermes construction site in Oak Ridge, Tenn. What I saw there was not a rendering, not a licensing presentation, not another panel about the...

Terrestrial Energy and Texas A&M reach agreement on reactor siting

June 23, 2026, 7:06AMNuclear News

Terrestrial Energy has signed ground lease and research agreements with the Texas A&M University System (TAMUS) to exclusively use about 77 acres of land at the Texas A&M–RELLIS...

Valar’s Ward 250 reaches criticality in Utah

June 22, 2026, 10:44AMNuclear News

El Segundo, Calif.–based start-up Valar Atomics has taken its Ward 250 test reactor critical at the Utah San Rafael Energy Lab (USREL), becoming the second company in the Department of...

Looking back at 2021—Nuclear News October through December

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