Sweden picks mini-reactors for first nuclear expansion in 50 years
Friday, 22 August 2025 () Stockholm (AFP) Aug 21, 2025
Sweden said Thursday that it had selected so-called small modular nuclear reactors (SMRs) for its first nuclear power expansion in a half-century. The government said three or five of the next-generation reactors would be built at the Ringhals plant in southwestern Sweden, providing around 1,500 megawatts - the equivalent of two classic reactors. "For the first time in 50 years, ne
South Korea-US drills trigger Kim Jong-un to pledge nuclear force expansion
Pyongyang has long denounced the allies’ joint drills as invasion rehearsals and Kim has often used them to justify his own military displays and testing activities aimed at expanding his nuclear weapons...
To understand America’s approach to nuclear confrontation, it may be useful to rewind back to the first presidential nuclear drill in 1977. Veuer’s Matt Hoffman has the story.
Kamchatka's Krasheninnikov volcano erupts for the first time in 600 years
The Kamchatka branch of Russia’s ministry for emergency services said an ash plume was recorded rising up 5-6 kilometres..
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Wildfires have encircled Turkey’s first nuclear reactor site—the Akkuyu plant in Mersin Province—driven by a brutal drought and heatwave. Russian and Turkish firefighting aircraft, including..