US Boat Strike Kills Three in the Eastern Pacific Ocean

Ships Abruptly U-Turn Near Hormuz As Some Shift To Iran-Approved Routes The reopening of the Hormuz chokepoint has proceeded relatively smoothly for weeks, but an overnight development shows that the process remains fragile. At least eight ships attempting to exit the Persian Gulf abruptly reversed course near the critical waterway. Bloomberg cites ship-tracking data showing that the vessels, including oil tankers, product carriers, bulk carriers, and vehicle carriers, were moving toward the strait along the Omani coast before abruptly turning back. Several ships later resumed their transits through the strait by...

US Nuclear Recycling Plant Could Extract 100 Times More Energy From Uranium Fuel Authored by Georgina Jedikovska via Interesting Engineering, A US startup has joined forces with the nation's first national laboratory to recycle spent nuclear fuel into energy for fast reactors by using advanced pyroprocessing technology. New York-based nuclear technology company BLSK Energy announced on May 18 that it had signed a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) in Illinois to commercialize the method. Used nuclear fuel containers. Pyroprocessing (or pyrochemical processing) is a high-temperature metallurgical process that...

"Navigation Extremely Limited": Top Shipper Warns IRGC Mines Complicate Hormuz Normalization The top executive of Japan's largest shipping company told the Financial Times in an exclusive weekend interview that the path toward normalization in the Strait of Hormuz remains far more complicated than anticipated. He warned that shipping volumes may stay well below prewar levels for months, as IRGC-laid mines are forcing vessels into narrow, safer corridors near Iran and Oman. "The routes available for navigation are extremely limited — they're very narrow corridors," Takaya Soga, chief executive of Japan's NYK...