What moved on the mandate.
Live third-party coverage across the six rings of the atlas, filtered to civil scope. Headlines link out to the publisher.
D.01
Reactor systems & civil nuclear
New build, licensing cadence, decommissioning and plant life.
Ring in the atlas- Nuclear decommissioning boss lists industrial action and cyber threats as ‘top concerns’ (opens in a new tab)
- USTDA, TÜPRAŞ Partner on Small Modular Reactor Deployment in Türkiye (opens in a new tab)
- Japan's science minister visits Kyoto Fusioneering to back fusion energy industrialization push (opens in a new tab)
- Proxima Fusion taps Japanese expertise to advance fusion (opens in a new tab)
- Helical Fusion and Germany’s Gauss Fusion Sign Joint Statement of Intent to Advance Fusion Power Commercialization (opens in a new tab)
- Fusion energy needs a clearer account of what each breakthrough measures (opens in a new tab)
D.02
Materials for extreme environments
Alloys, ceramics, coatings and irradiation behaviour.
Ring in the atlas- Super Intelligence Accelerates the Quest for Radiation-Hardened Space Components (opens in a new tab)
- MIT Researchers Use Ferveret Cooling Platform to Advance AI Work on Nuclear Materials (opens in a new tab)
- French nuclear materials company Orano launches 500 million euros bond (opens in a new tab)
- Queen’s launches new institute to advance nuclear materials research | Queen's Gazette (opens in a new tab)
- NEA joint projects TAF-ID and TCOFF-2 strengthen collaboration on nuclear materials research (opens in a new tab)
- Why Radiation Damage Needs Thermodynamics, Not Just Transport (opens in a new tab)
D.03
Fuel cycle, safety & monitoring
Fuel fabrication, waste, dosimetry and safeguards.
Ring in the atlas- Trusting Artificial Intelligence in Nuclear Safeguards (opens in a new tab)
- IAEA Urges Uzbekistan to Prepare for Nuclear Waste Challenges (opens in a new tab)
- Texas A&M gets $5.4M to research turning nuclear waste into fuel (opens in a new tab)
- Is the nuclear waste at San Onofre safe from high tides and El Niño? (opens in a new tab)
- World's First Permanent Nuclear Waste Site Wins License in Finland (opens in a new tab)
- DOE asks for input on spent fuel package safety demonstration (opens in a new tab)
D.04
Pilot scale, qualification & manufacturing
Supply chain, forgings, hot cells and inspection at scale.
Ring in the atlas- Bae Kyung-hoon: "Build a Global Nuclear Supply Chain Hub with SMRs" — Reviewing Expanded Private Operation and Ownership (opens in a new tab)
- South Korea Vows To Become Global Nuclear Manufacturing Hub As IAEA Conference Opens (opens in a new tab)
- Bruce Power’s hot cell approved for medical isotope production (opens in a new tab)
- IAEA Trains Ukrainian Experts in Non-Destructive Testing for Civil Engineering (opens in a new tab)
D.05
Power generation, grid & efficiency
Plant systems, transmission hardware, protection and heat recovery.
Ring in the atlas- FG pays half of power debt owed, targets 19,000MW transmission capacity (opens in a new tab)
- FG approves East, West super grids to raise transmission capacity to 19,000MW (opens in a new tab)
- Research report: On the potential of waste heat recovery by means of thermoelectricity (opens in a new tab)
- Uzbekistan, Oman's Voltamp explore high-voltage transformer production (opens in a new tab)
- Six Substations Target Better Electricity Supply in Kano and Katsina (opens in a new tab)
- Nigeria Adds 640MW Of Transmission Capacity With Six New Substations (opens in a new tab)
D.06
Energy storage & batteries
Cells, grid-scale and long-duration systems, packs and recycling.
Ring in the atlas- India’s 500 GW clean energy ambition hinges on long-duration energy storage scale-up, with FY28 viability gap funding as the key enabler: IESA Report (opens in a new tab)
- Sarawak eyes salt, sodium resources for emerging sodium-ion battery industry (opens in a new tab)
- Rajasthan to Pilot India’s First Sodium-Ion Battery Storage System in Jaipur with Global Energy Alliance Support (opens in a new tab)
- Breaking It Down: Next-Generation Batteries (opens in a new tab)
- India Must Build Battery Cell Manufacturing Capacity To Reduce China Dependence, Says Yogesh Mudras (opens in a new tab)
- GM is betting on battery cells that don’t use lithium [updated] (opens in a new tab)
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