# Google News RSS / direct-publisher lead scan — Energy SMR Watch — 2026-08-25

Queries checked through Google News RSS / direct publisher fallback:
- `small modular reactor OR SMR nuclear after:2026-08-23`
- `advanced nuclear reactor DOE NRC after:2026-08-23`
- `uranium fuel HALEU nuclear after:2026-08-23`
- `data center nuclear power SMR after:2026-08-23`
- `mine electrification industrial heat nuclear after:2026-08-23`
- `site:world-nuclear-news.org nuclear SMR August 2026`
- `site:energy.gov/ne nuclear August 2026 HALEU`
- `site:nrc.gov small modular reactor August 2026`

Selected for publication:
- Blykalla official/company release: “Blykalla Submits Application for Second Advanced Nuclear Reactor Park in Sweden, with up to 440 MW of Capacity” (August 25, 2026), resolved to https://www.blykalla.com/post/blykalla-submits-application-for-second-advanced-nuclear-reactor-park-in-sweden-with-up-to-440-mw-of-capacity
- World Nuclear News: “Blykalla submits second SMR plant application” (published August 25, 2026), resolved to https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/blykalla-submits-second-smr-plant-application
- Swedish Government official context: “How the support model for financing new nuclear energy works”, https://www.government.se/government-policy/nuclear-financing/how-the-support-model-for-financing-new-nuclear-energy-works/

Why selected:
- New same-day development with an official company release and independent nuclear-trade reporting.
- It is a substantive SMR/AMR deployment-gate story: a second Swedish application, up to eight lead-cooled AMRs, up to 440 MW, first operations targeted in the first half of the 2030s, explicitly conditional on approvals.
- Not a duplicate of existing Managing Expectations Energy cards, which recently covered Ur-Energy, Orano Project Ike, Uzbekistan, TerraPower/Korea, X-energy, NuScale/ENEC and HALEU/fuel-chain gates.

Leads checked and skipped:
- NRIC Launch Pad / 13 new projects: interesting U.S. advanced-reactor/fuel-cycle pipeline lead, but the official NRIC/INL release URL was not cleanly accessible in this run; POWER Magazine article was retained as a watch lead rather than today’s source card.
- Radiant R-50 Part 70 license application: partly overlaps the July 28 DOE HALEU/Radiant source card; monitor for actual NRC decision/hearing milestones.
- NANO Nuclear / Quadrant or Tillman Digital Gateway MOUs: company/commercial-framework material, but weaker official/regulatory anchors than the Blykalla application.
- NuScale nuclear-specific AI deployment: useful corporate-process lead, but less direct to firm-power deployment than a reactor-park application.
- Data-center nuclear stock/listicle items and market commentary: skipped as investment-oriented and not official infrastructure gates.