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Compact nuclear fission reactors, usually under a few hundred megawatts, using standardized, factory-built components for faster, more flexible construction.
HD Hyundai reported first-half operating profit of 6.96 trillion won, up 187%, on revenue of 42.01 trillion won. Its 1.4 trillion won spent or set aside for data-center engines, servicing and a reactor facility is about a fifth of that.
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Gaon Cable plans a nuclear power cable line at its North Carolina unit LSCUS for US reactor and small modular reactor projects. The only budget reported, $50 million by April next year, is for data-center cable.
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Terrestrial Energy asked the NRC to put only its reactor module on the full licensing track and let the turbine wing follow commercial schedules. Approval would let turbine halls run before the reactor is licensed, including at a reported 390 MWe plant at Aberdeen Proving Ground.
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HD Hyundai gave Lee Sang-kyun its shipyards and its data-center and reactor plans, but put its 830 billion won engine expansion under Han Joo-seok. The only new venture with a budget so far extends the engine business the group already runs.
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Korea's nuclear regulator targets 2032 for SMR review standards, four years after developers such as TerraPower begin seeking construction permits. For SK Innovation's consortium, the delay comes from Seoul's rulebook and staffing, since TerraPower already holds a US construction permit.
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Hyundai Glovis signed an MOU on Sept. 30 with Liberty Global Logistics to test whether small-reactor car carriers are viable on Korea-US routes. The agreement moves the reactor ship from engineering approval into the regulatory and commercial questions that decide whether anyone orders one.
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Holtec filed its safety analysis with the NRC, completing the permit application for two SMR-300 reactors totalling 680 MW at Palisades. Reviews of individual design pieces have NRC dates, but the public record shows no date yet for the permit decision that would let construction start.
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Investors have put more than $6 billion into nuclear fission and fusion startups in 2026, a record by Crunchbase's count. The IPO market those investors would one day sell into has marked most recent nuclear listings far below their peaks.
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A modelling study in Progress in Energy takes electricity, hydrogen and desalinated water off one 200 MW-thermal module, and its hydrogen cost drops about 17 per cent once the freshwater is sold externally. Nothing has been built.
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The four-way agreement signed in New York splits design, engineering, licensing and construction of a 300-megawatt reactor. The pipeline behind it runs to 40 units, against one under construction in Canada.
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The Ulsan memorandum splits more than 1 trillion won between a HiMSEN power engine plant sized at 3 gigawatts and a line for small modular reactor components. The city's contribution is faster permits.
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The Korean builder's engineering arm signs in New York on Sept. 23, taking a design review role on the Hermes demonstration reactor in Tennessee and priority rights to the commercial work that follows.
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Japan pledged the $550 billion in response to American tariff measures. Six months on it is what Takaichi brings to a summit whose agenda also includes the cost of US bases, with four of the five decided projects in oil and power.
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Natura Resources says it now holds the coolant for its MSR-1 demonstration reactor, shipped from Oak Ridge through Idaho National Laboratory to the Abilene Christian University site on September 18. It won the material in a DOE competition.
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Oak Ridge's detector straps onto a ventilation duct and samples once a minute on battery, or once a second when it is wired over Power over Ethernet. The crystal that makes it cheap costs a dollar or two.
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Centrica and X-energy have the Xe-100 in the UK Generic Design Assessment, a three-regulator review running about three years. Planners get an 80 MWe unit, plant sizes of 320 to 960 MW, and a schedule that stops short of site licensing.
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The company plans to announce its first data centre plant this year, with ground broken in 2027. The design point is that heat storage decouples reactor output from plant output.
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ONE Nuclear has site control at all three Louisiana sites and a binding letter of intent at the largest of them. It has not yet named a reactor technology for the nuclear campus, or an in-service date for any of the three.
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A Department of Energy design approval and two boreholes outside Parsons, Kansas, begin the test, but the cost line this design is meant to delete has never been quantified in public, and the demonstration is targeted for 2027.
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Washington is now treating quayside power as supply-chain policy. The scope it has put in front of two ports reaches beyond megawatts, into insurance, port acceptance and mariner training.
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