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Housing Starts Surge To Highest Since 2024 As Permits Unexpectedly Crater With mortgage rates still relatively low, despite a recent jump in interest rates, and a top-down push for affordability, Housing Starts for March soared while the more forward-looking Building Permits disappointed, unexpectedly plunged. Housing starts soared 10.8% MoM in March (far more than the -0.4% expected drop) while Permits plunged 10.8% MoM (and worse than the -0.4% decline expected)... This pushed the SAAR totals for Starts to 1.502 million, far above the 1.390 million expected, and the highest since Dec 2024,...

Portable 1MW Kaleidos Microreactor Secures Critical Nuclear Fuel Deal Through 2030s Authored by Aamir Khollam via Interesting Engineering, Radiant has secured a long-term source of nuclear fuel for its Kaleidos microreactor, removing a potential supply hurdle as the company prepares the system for deployment. Kaleidos transportable nuclear reactor delivery.Radiant Nuclear Standard Nuclear will fabricate TRISO fuel for Radiant under an agreement covering planned Kaleidos deployments through the early 2030s. The deal gives the reactor developer a dedicated fuel supplier as its program moves toward full-scale testing and production. Fuel availability remains a critical...