DOE approved Radiant's Documented Safety Analysis for the Kaleidos microreactor, clearing the path to a readiness review before fueling at Idaho National Laboratory. The INL campaign is set to culminate in at least 150 hours of continuous full-power operation without operator intervention. Unattended full-power hours is the operations number to watch for microreactors.
Curtiss-Wright will invest $30 million to expand its Round Rock, Texas plant and raise capacity for pressure and temperature sensors used in commercial reactors and industrial applications. The nuclear revival runs into instrumentation supply long before it runs into new reactors.
HistorianSim is a Claude Code workflow: describe a chemical process in plain English and you get about 90 days of simulated plant historian time-series with injected faults, control loops that can mask them, and a private answer key. Nothing in the data comes from a real plant, so teams can practice RCA, test fault detection, and train agents without sharing live historian files. Different tool from Scott Duncan's troubleshooting-agent YouTube and PFD Claude skill already on the Feed.
For process, reliability and controls engineers: practicing RCA or training agents.
autocad-plant3d-mcp lets Claude Code, Claude Desktop or another MCP client build, check and renumber P&IDs in AutoCAD Plant 3D through its .NET API, so lines carry real connections and pass validation. It also runs read-only checks on the project database for duplicate tags, orphan objects and open line ends. A chemical engineering student built it from a two-semester plant design project.
For process design engineers and EPC tool builders: on AutoCAD Plant 3D.
