Bret Kugelmass of Last Energy aims to build his first 10 inexpensive, off-the-shelf fission reactors in eastern Europe. Anhour west of Houston, where suburban sprawl surrenders to cow pasture, sits a ...
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Like It Or Not, New Nuclear Reactors Are Coming To The U.S. Waterfront
The last nuclear-powered guided missile cruiser USS South Carolina (CGN-37) left U.S service in 1999 Corbis via Getty Images Over the next decade, a combination of strategic, economic, and environment...
The Nuclear Fusion Breakthrough In Context
WASHINGTON, DC – DECEMBER 13: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories Director Dr. Kim Budil … [+] speaks during a news conference with fellow administrators and scientists at the Departm...
Why Water-Cooled SMRs Will Win The New Nuclear Competition
New small reactor designs like this air-cooled test reactor at the Idaho National Laboratory will … [+] have a hard time competing against water-cooled models, according to Alfredo Caro, a resea...
After years as nuclear powerhouse, France makes play in offshore wind
This image, from Sept. 2022, shows French President Emmanuel Macron speaking with workers on board a boat during a visit to the Saint-Nazaire Offshore Wind Farm. Stephane Mahe | AFP | Getty Images A f...
The Economics Of European Nuclear Power Don’t Add Up
Nearly 500 metres below the surface at the Cigéo nuclear research lab Christine Ro Rainer Baake, the managing director of the Climate Neutrality Foundation in Germany, puts it bluntly. “Why would anyo...
The Generational Divide Over Nuclear Power
The Leibstadt nuclear power plant in Switzerland, which has a playground for child visitors. Christine Ro Maud Simon is one of the younger residents of the House of Resistance, a home in the bucolic F...
Obama, Trump Energy Secretaries Agree On Everything Until One Goes Too Far
Dan Brouillette (left) was President Trump’s energy secretary from 2019-2021. Ernest Moniz served … [+] under President Obama from 2013-2017. The two men shared a stage Oct. 12, 2022 at Co...
Utility Titan, Philanthropist And History Lover Who Has Died At Age 77
John Rowe, Chairman and CEO of Exelon, speaks during the Energy town hall meeting at the National … [+] Summit in Detroit on June 15, 2009. AFP via Getty Images John Rowe, the electric utility l...
Nuclear Waste And The Path Forward
FILE – People leave the south portal of Yucca Mountain during a congressional tour on July 14, 2018, … [+] near Mercury, Nev. Nevada is asking the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission to ...
Ensuring A Safe Future For Nuclear Power
FILE – Smoke rises from cooling towers of the nuclear power plant Temelin near the town of Tyn nad … [+] Vltavou, Czech Republic, June 25, 2015. The Czech state-controlled power company CE...
The World Won’t Get To Net Zero Emissions Without Nuclear Power
A construction worker works on the Phase II nuclear power plant at the LingAo nuclear power plant in … [+] Daya Bay, Guangdong province, China. The LingAo nuclear power plant is an excellent exa...
Christie Brinkley Trots Out Nuclear Disinformation
Not Really Emission Free The author with Ted Sanderson Nuclear power is definitely getting its day in the sun, partly from long-term nuclear power advocates (duh), but also from those worried about cl...
Nuclear Power Could Cut The World’s Carbon Emissions In Half
Atomic plant Vogtle, is a 2-unit nuclear power plant located in Burke County, near Waynesboro, … [+] Georgia in USA. Each unit has a Westinghouse pressurized water reactor (PWR), with a General ...
Japan is pivoting to more nuclear power — the IEA says it’s good news
This image, from March 2022, shows wind turbines in front of the Hamaoka Nuclear Power Station in Japan. The country is now planning to use more nuclear power in the years ahead. Korekore | Istock | G...
Japan just signaled a big shift in its post-Fukushima future
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida photographed during a news conference on Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2022. Rodrigo Reyes-Marin | Bloomberg | Getty Images The prime minister of Japan said Wednesday that ...
Landmark Climate Bill Could Help Boost Struggling Nuclear Plants—Here’s Why
Topline Nuclear plants could see their bottom lines improve thanks to a new tax credit in the massive climate, health care and deficit reduction package passed by the Senate this weekend—a potential l...
Goldman doesn’t see nuclear as a transformational tech for the future
A nuclear power plant photographed in Germany, on August 4, 2022. Discussions about nuclear’s role in Europe’s biggest economy have been thrown into sharp relief following Russia’s u...
Nuclear power plant lowers output to protect fish
Switzerland’s Beznau nuclear power plant photographed in July 2019. The facility uses the river Aare for cooling. Fabrice Coffrini | AFP | Getty Images A nuclear power plant in Switzerland is lo...
Keeping Illinois nuclear plants open saving some customers $237 a year
Byron, UNITED STATES: The Exelon Byron Nuclear Generating Stations running at full capacity 14 May, 2007, in Byron, Illinois. (Photo credit should read JEFF HAYNES/AFP via Getty Images) JEFF HAYNES | ...
Some Of Korea’s Biggest Conglomerates To Build Small-Scale Nuclear Plants In Asia
Getty Samsung and two other Korean conglomerates have signed an agreement with U.S.-based NuScale to build small-scale modular nuclear reactors, known as SMRs, in Asia as demand for clean energy grows...
Europe Needs Natural Gas And America Could Help—If We Could Get Out Of Our Own Way
DASHAVA, UKRAINE – SEPTEMBER 18: A worker explains the reading on a pressure guage on a valve at … [+] the Dashava natural gas facility on September 18, 2014 in Dashava, Ukraine. The Dasha...
Ukraine war sees some countries focus on food, fuel, not clean energy
Concerns related to both the energy transition and energy security have been thrown into sharp relief by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. At the same time, recent months have also seen commodity pr...
The role of natural gas in the Russia-Ukraine conflict
Natural gas is one of several commodities affected by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Prices on the Dutch TTF hub, a European benchmark for natural gas trading, more than tripled between February...
Britain eyes nuclear, wind, fossil fuels in bid for energy security
Alongside a ramp up in nuclear power, the British Energy Security Strategy envisages up to 50 GW of offshore wind and 10 GW of hydrogen – half of which would be so-called green hydrogen – by 2030. Chr...
There should be no new gas supply contracts with Russia: IEA
A Gazprom logo photographed in Russia on Jan. 28, 2021. Andrey Rudakov | Bloomberg | Getty Images The European Union should not enter into any new gas supply contracts with Russia, in order to lower i...
Nuclear Power’s Future Is Looking Brighter
Atomic plant Vogtle, is a 2-unit nuclear power plant located in Burke County, near Waynesboro, … [+] Georgia in USA. Each unit has a Westinghouse pressurized water reactor (PWR), with a General ...
European nuclear fusion experiment announces ‘record-breaking’ results
Nuclear fusion powers the Sun. Pierre Longnus | The Image Bank | Getty Images Researchers working on a project centered around fusion energy — the process that powers stars — have hailed “record...