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New Nuclear Capital 2025: Wall Street’s fission test arrives in New York
New Nuclear Capital 2025 isn’t a science conference; it’s a credibility conference.
NATO Summit 2025 (The Hague): Spending to 5%—and a new era of hard choices
At The Hague, NATO leaders endorsed a path toward 5% of GDP on defence and security by 2035—recasting Europe’s procurement tempo, industrial policy, and cyber posture. Protests outside highlighted the politics of guns‑vs‑butter budgeting.
ICONE32 (Weihai): Nuclear’s engineering summit leans hard into manufacturability
ICONE32 (June 22–27, Weihai) focused on buildability: modularization, digital QA, and supply‑chain realism for advanced and conventional reactors.
ANS Annual Conference 2025 (Chicago):
The mood turned quietly bullish: utilities want capacity, OEMs want repeatable designs, and regulators want fewer surprises. Call it nuclear’s boring‑is‑beautiful turn.
Indo Defence 2025 (Jakarta): Jakarta turns into a defense super-market
Indo Defence (June 11–14, JIExpo) mixed mega‑pavilions with actionable buys—from mobile counter‑UAS and EW kit to shipyard tie‑ups and local‑content deals. Jakarta wasn’t a catwalk; it was a checkout line.
RadWaste Summit 2025: Waste is where nuclear earns trust
In Savannah (June 10–12, The DeSoto), RadWaste Summit swapped slogans for schedules: decommissioning timelines, interim storage, packaging & transport, and community transparency took center stage.
Black Sea Security Forum 2025: Odesa’s defense tech is built for tonight, not 2030
On the ground in Odesa: maritime drones, air defense, demining and AI ISR dominate the Black Sea Security Forum, as Ukraine’s port city hosts a wartime summit.
World Sustainable Development Summit 2025 (New Delhi): Where climate finance meets real deployment
At WSDS 2025 in New Delhi, the center of gravity shifts from targets to tools: climate finance, resilient grids, water security and adaptation tech that can scale.
IDEX 2025 (Abu Dhabi): Drones, EW and the platform war to own the kill‑chain
Inside Abu Dhabi’s IDEX 2025: uncrewed systems, counter‑UAS, electronic warfare and the arms‑length AI stack reshaping the modern battlespace.