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NUAR Is A Breakthrough, But Underground Risk Has Not Disappeared

Despite the National Underground Asset Register now covering more than 80 per cent of buried infrastructure, around 230 underground utility strikes still occur every working day in the UK.

A cutaway of the STEP fusion plant (Image: UKAEA)
Key contracts awarded in UK fusion programme

The ILIOS consortium has been appointed as the construction partner for the UK's STEP Fusion programme, while Kinectrics has been named as the design and fabrication partner for the UKAEA-Eni H3AT

Matthew Hall, Jay Sanjeevan, Faye Rathmill and Michelle Lambon-Wilks
Sellafield apprentice wins national skills award

Faye Rathmill has been named Higher and Degree Apprentice of the Year at the UK Nuclear Skills Awards 2026

Mark Thurston, Chief Executive, Anglian Water
Water for Public Benefit

Guest: Mark Thurston, Chief Executive, Anglian Water
Interviewed by: Antony Oliver

Train driver steers TBM Karen towards Euston
HS2 launches final giant tunnelling machine towards Euston station

HS2 has started excavation of the final tunnel bore on the 140-mile railway between central London and the West Midlands – marking a significant milestone for the project.

David Littlemore
RAF’s Professional Engineering Flight Plan

Guest: Squadron Leader David Littlemore, Executive Officer, Cyber & Specialist Operations Command, Infrastructure, RAF
Interviewed by: Antony Oliver

Iran, the Middle East and Impact on UK energy
Iran, the Middle East and Impact on UK energy

Your questions answered on the impact of recent conflict in the Middle East.

UK gas supply

The UK’s gas supply will not be disrupted.  

Government to go "further and faster" in becoming energy secure
Government to go "further and faster" in becoming energy secure

The Energy Secretary outlines measures to protect consumers and make Britain energy secure.

How a Rolls-Royce SMR might look (Image: Rolls-Royce SMR)
GBE-N granted licence to generate electricity

Great British Energy - Nuclear has been granted an electricity generating licence - required by all electricity generating companies - by the UK's gas and electricity markets regulator Ofgem.

Workers on the roof of the shelter after the drone strike
Full restoration of Chernobyl shelter's function targeted for 2030

An interim report on options for the full restoration of the New Safe Confinement's protective functions is due to be presented later this month.

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Deep Fission begins drilling first data acquisition well

California-based startup Deep Fission, which aims to place small modular reactors in boreholes a mile underground, has begun drilling the first of three planned data acquisition wells in Parsons, K

Bristol Airport
Equilibrion assesses nuclear-derived sustainable aviation fuel

The UK's Rolls-Royce SMR has signed a memorandum of understanding with strategic and technical consultancy and project development company Equilibrion to collaborate on a technical and economic ass