EnergyConfirmed
2026-10-08Westinghouse contracted Hyundai E&C for FEED studies on two Dutch AP1000 units — formalises Korean-US alliance against Russian / Chinese reactor exports; a geopolitical shift in European nuclear sourcing.
Barrier-breaking signals
19 of 415 eventsEvery real-world crossing the tracker has logged across nine scaffolds. Each entry names the moment, cites the source, and shows which forks it tilts. Pressure moments are the ones where the floor moved faster than any forecast window said it would.
Direction per event — which pole each crossing pulls toward — is scheduled for the next enrichment cycle. For now, chips show which forks the event touches without claiming a side.
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EnergyReported
2026-10-06[solved] A Single Conformal Coordinate Decodes Outcome-Resolved Measurement-Induced Entanglement
EnergyConfirmed
2026-10-01$120 billion US-South Korea framework to deploy six Westinghouse AP1000 and two APR1400 units on federal sites — largest US nuclear build-out commitment in a generation. Reshapes US nuclear industrial policy.
EnergyConfirmed
2026-08-23CATL began selling 314 Ah LFP cells direct at $63/kWh with 1,800 manufacturers signing on; broader market LFP cell wholesale stabilizing at $53-56/kWh. CATL sodium-ion Naxtra cells quoted at $19/kWh — a new low-cost storage boundary.
EnergyConfirmed
2026-07-15CFS installed the SPARC vacuum vessel and completed ~75% of reactor construction, maintaining a 2027 first-plasma / Q>1 goal. Cryogenic plant commissioned at 8 K operating temperature Sept 2026.
EnergyConfirmed
2026-05-01DOE approved Zap Energy's z-pinch fusion pilot plant preconceptual design milestone, describing a ~50 MWe-per-module path. First DOE approval of a non-tokamak, non-laser commercial pilot-plant architecture.
CHN Energy connected the first batch of units at the world's first GW-class offshore solar PV project off Dongying, Shandong, and brought the 3 GW Mengxi Lanhai PV plant online — expanding the frontier of utility-scale offshore solar.
Korea's KSTAR tokamak sustained ion temperature of 100 million C for 102 seconds in a fully tungsten-walled divertor configuration — first machine to combine ITER-relevant wall materials with reactor-relevant hot-ion endurance.
NRC approved TerraPower's 345 MW Natrium sodium-cooled reactor construction permit in Kemmerer, Wyoming — first commercial reactor permit in ~10 years, first non-light-water commercial reactor permit in 40+ years. Issued in 14 months (vs 18 target).
BloombergNEF reported 2025 global battery-storage installs of 112 GW (10x 2021 level); 2026 forecast 158 GW (+41% YoY). China took >50% share, US 16%. AI data-center demand reshaping storage trajectory.
Helion Energy announced its Polaris prototype hit 150 million C, ~75% of the temperature required for commercial operation. Company subsequently rolled back 'net electricity' goal for Polaris to 'demonstrate electricity from fusion'.
CEPC's 100 km Higgs-factory TDR was finalized Oct 2025, but China's 15th Five-Year Plan (2026-2030) will not include construction approval — major setback for the global next-generation collider program.
China's EAST tokamak sustained steady-state high-confinement plasma for 1,066 s, more than doubling its 2023 403 s record — a key step toward continuous reactor-grade operation.
XENONnT reported 3.1 tonne-year exposure giving a best median sensitivity of 1.4e-47 cm2 for 41 GeV/c2 WIMPs. No excess seen; approaching the irreducible solar-neutrino 'floor'.
CHN Energy's HG14 offshore PV project (1 GW, 1,223 ha, 8 km offshore in Shandong) reached full grid connection in late Dec 2025 — the first GW-scale fixed-pile open-sea solar installation, projected 1.78 TWh/yr output.
Example-shape entry for energy_physics allowlist. Real entries capture fusion ignition milestones (NIF successors), SMR regulatory first-approvals, grid-scale storage cost crossovers, battery energy-density step-changes, and quantum-computing qubit-count or error-rate milestones announced outside arxiv (industry press releases).
LUX-ZEPLIN analysed 417 live days (Mar 2023-Apr 2025) and found no WIMPs in the 3-9 GeV range, setting the strongest low-mass limits ever. Boron-8 solar neutrinos detected at 4.5-sigma — new sub-floor physics territory.
Final Muon g-2 experiment results from Fermilab released at Nov 2025 symposium — 127 ppb precision, 4x better than prior world average. Agrees with the latest lattice-QCD Standard Model prediction, closing a historical new-physics discovery boundary.
LHC delivered 125 fb-1 to ATLAS and CMS in 2025 — a new annual luminosity record. ATLAS alone collected 332 fb-1 across Run 3; Run 3 closed June 27, 2026, with the largest particle-physics dataset ever to be analyzed.
How to read this feed
Scaffold tag names the domain the event sits inside. Fork chips name which open fork(s) this crossing tilts — the specific timeline questions this moment contributes evidence to. Confirmed events are published and sourced; reported claims are announced but not yet independently verified; leading indicators are directional signals, not canonical crossings. A pressure moment flag means the pace exceeded what any forecast window had scheduled.
Click a title to open the source. Click a scaffold tag to narrow the feed. Click a fork chip to jump to that fork’s current read.