Hadron Energy completes SPAC deal and signs Halo conversion agreement
Hadron Energy says it completed its GigCapital7 combination and signed a ConverDyn conversion-services agreement for the Halo microreactor.
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Hadron Energy says it completed its GigCapital7 combination and signed a ConverDyn conversion-services agreement for the Halo microreactor.
Meitner Energy has presented Argentina with a proposal for a 300 MW small modular reactor at Atucha. The next meaningful receipt is an official response or siting development.
One year after the World Bank reversed its long-standing ban on nuclear power investment, the Bank and the International Atomic Energy Agency reported progress in a partnership focused on financing advanced nuclear projects in developing countries.
Framatome has agreed to supply fuel assemblies to TVO for Finland’s Olkiluoto 3 EPR under an eight-year contract, adding to active fuel-cycle contracting.
A reactor pressure vessel has been installed in the second unit of Egypt’s El Dabaa Nuclear Power Plant. The installation was marked by a ceremony and represents visible progress on the new-build project.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has proposed a major rewrite of its National Environmental Policy Act rules. The July 7 proposal cites executive orders, statutory NEPA amendments, and a Supreme Court precedent, according to the supplied research record.
The agreement firms up an extension previously reported as nearing and would preserve roughly 1.2 GW of low-carbon generating capacity at the UK’s only operating pressurised water reactor through 2055.
Australia and India have signed an administrative arrangement enabling long-term Australian uranium exports to India for exclusively peaceful purposes. The arrangement sits under a bilateral nuclear cooperation agreement signed more than a decade ago.
Intersect merged pull request #167, titled “Mainnet: van Rossem hard fork,” into its governance-actions repository. The change stages a mainnet protocol-upgrade governance action for Cardano’s Voltaire governance path.
The United States, Japan and South Korea have signed a memorandum of cooperation on exporting small modular reactors, or SMRs, to third countries. The agreement was signed by the three countries’ foreign ministers at the NATO summit in Turkey.
OpenAI says GPT-Live brings simultaneous listening and speaking to ChatGPT, with access now for paying users and an API planned soon.
Hydra merged a PersistentQueue deadlock fix and added traces intended to make queue pressure and failures visible to operators.
Hydra has merged support for HD wallet payment keys in hydra-node, but operators should wait for a tagged release before treating it as available.
The update follows prototype-2026w27a, which was described as stable with no forks but still unable to complete a genesis sync without stalling. This is a research-prototype milestone, not a mainnet deployment or production-readiness signal.
Brazil’s National Council for Mineral Policy has created a working group to examine how the mineral sector—and uranium in particular—could support the Brazilian nuclear programme. The move is an early administrative step, not a production announcement.
Deep Fission has received a prototype reactor canister intended for a pilot project at the Parsons site in Kansas. The California startup aims to place small modular reactors in boreholes about a mile underground.
Holtec International says work to restart the Palisades plant in Covert, Michigan has moved from large-scale projects into smaller final activities. The plant last operated in 2022. The update does not provide a firm date for a restart.
City Labs' BOHR CubeSat reportedly reached orbit on SpaceX's Transporter-17, marking a commercial nuclear-in-space launch milestone with possible regulatory relevance.
Dukovany’s reported first-year progress is an early positive signal, but the project remains before the harder construction phase.
The OECD Nuclear Energy Agency says only its “transformative” pathway would meet the COP28 goal of tripling nuclear capacity by 2050.
The confirmed extension keeps a 1,198-MW source of generation available beyond its previously expected 2035 closure.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has proposed changes to 10 CFR Part 51 that could shorten parts of the environmental-review process for licensing actions.
Bitcoin ETF flows are mixed again: spot bitcoin funds returned to outflows while ether funds extended inflows, with analysts focusing on a futures-led rebound.
The launch adds a concrete platform development to a reported increase in tokenized-equity activity, though the available record is limited and partly promotional.