📰 2026-04-09

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Nuclear News Daily—4/9: GAIN vouchers / DOME open / N.J. moratorium

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Apr 09, 2026

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In this issue: New GAIN vouchers, NRIC’s DOME opens for business, New Jersey lifts its de facto nuclear moratorium, Project Omega to work with INL on recycling, Norway looks away from nuclear, and more. Throwback Thursday: With the Artemis II mission...

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https://american-nuclear-society.read.axioshq.com/p/unclear-newswire-daily-practice/cc58e6b2-76b5-44df-8ec0-57660eae945c

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도입부: In this issue: New GAIN vouchers, NRIC’s DOME opens for business, New Jersey lifts its de facto nuclear moratorium, Project Omega to work with INL on recycling, Norway looks away from nuclear, and more.

GAIN vouchers go to Constellation, Nano Nuclear, and NuCube

The Department of Energy’s Gateway for Accelerated Innovation in Nuclear (GAIN) has awarded three fiscal year 2026 vouchers to support the development of advanced nuclear technologies. Each company will get access to specific capabilities and expertise in the DOE’s national laboratory complex—in this round of awards both Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Argonne National Laboratory are named—and will be responsible for a minimum 20 percent cost share, which can be an in-kind contribution. Go deeper on Nuclear NewsWire.

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INL has announced

that NRIC’s Demonstration of Microreactor Experiments (DOME) test bed is officially “open for business.” INL

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New Jersey Gov.

Mikie Sherrill signed a bill that ends the state’s de facto moratorium on new nuclear construction, removing outdated requirements and cutting red tape. States Newsroom; N.J. Business Magazine

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Diablo Canyon

NPP’s $1.4 billion loan from California may burden taxpayers due to a $658.6 million shortfall, according to a new report. UC Santa Barbara

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ARPA-E director

Conner Prochaska announced yesterday a record $135M in funding for fusion energy as Trump proposes cuts, highlighting tensions in federal energy strategy and industry funding needs. Axios; ARPA-E

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A government-appointed

commission in Norway found that the country should not begin working on developing nuclear power, citing a still-plentiful supply of hydropower. Reuters

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The CEO of Myriad Uranium

talks about the concept and impact of invisible uranium, undeveloped uranium sites made economic or politically inviable. NEI Magazine

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U.S. power consumption

will hit record highs in 2026 and 2027 due to AI and crypto data centers, with renewable generation increasing and coal usage declining, the EIA reports. Reuters

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The U.S. EIA

is predicting minimal nuclear energy growth despite President Trump’s goal to quadruple reactor capacity by 2050. Cowboy State Daily

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The NRC will hold

a virtual meeting on April 16 to discuss the 2025 safety performance of Vogtle and Hatch nuclear plants, confirming safe operations with some increased oversight for Vogtle Unit 3. NRC

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New X-ray imaging for ITER-supporting tokamaks

As researchers continue to seek ways to better understand the plasma inside fusion machines to fully harness fusion energy, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory is leading a project to provide new X-ray imaging systems to two international tokamak projects: WEST, in southern France, and JT-60SA, in Japan—both of which are designed to support the development of ITER. Go deeper on Nuclear NewsWire.

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Project Omega and INL to further investigate UNF recycling with ARPA-E award

Nuclear technology start-up Project Omega announced that it has been awarded a contract through the Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) to advance used nuclear fuel recycling. Project Omega said the award will be used to validate key components of its molten salt electrochemical recycling platform designed to process UNF, recover valuable isotopes, and reduce long-term waste management challenges. Go deeper on Nuclear NewsWire.

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Kenya, Rwanda eye nuclear reactors

Kenya and Rwanda are continuing to make progress toward deployment of their first nuclear reactors sometime in the near future, according to recent developments coming out of the African continent. Here are updates on the two countries’ nuclear ambitions. Go deeper on Nuclear NewsWire.

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TBT: The SNAP-10A

NASA is once again talking about the near-term future of nuclear power applications in space, but of course, this is far from the first time the concept has been explored. In fact, work at the crossroads of space and nuclear predates NASA itself. NASA was established via the National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958, while the Systems for Nuclear Auxiliary Power (SNAP) program (under the direction of the Atomic Energy Commission) began in 1955. The overarching goal of the SNAP program was to produce a portable and reliable nuclear power source for land, sea, and space applications. There were both odd- and even-number SNAP programs. The odd-numbered SNAP programs were used to develop radioisotope thermoelectric generators that could be used in potential marine applications and space missions, including powering satellites and lunar experiments. The even-numbered programs were designated for power sources that took advantage of energy generated by nuclear reactors. One of those even-numbered programs, SNAP-10A, saw the creation of a power reactor of the same name that was launched aboard an Atlas-Agena D rocket on April 3, 1965. It then entered a 700-mile circular-polar orbit, after which it was remotely started up—making history as the first reactor tested in orbit. SNAP-10A used a reactor core with 37 uranium–zirconium hydride fuel rods, making for a 34-kW reactor, which was paired with a power conversion unit capable of producing upward of 500 watts. It was operational for 43 days in orbit. Go deeper: To learn more about the SNAP-10A’s design and ultimate fate, read the full story on Nuclear NewsWire.

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