Finland may soon become the first country to develop a permanent way to store spent nuclear fuel by burying it in tunnels ...

Radioisotope thermoelectric generators do not rely on chemical reactions like the batteries in your phone. Instead, they rely on the radioactive decay of elements to produce heat and eventually ...

Everyone from the U.S. energy secretary to Big Tech touts small modular nuclear reactors as a potential answer to booming ...

Molten Salt Reactors (MSRs) are nuclear fission reactors in which either the fuel and/or the coolant is a molten salt. Molten salt is salt which liquifies at elevated temperatures and can store ...

Abstract: In nuclear power plants (NPPs), ex-core neutron detectors are deployed ... oriented fault detection scheme called the global-fused dynamic detection (GFDD) model, established by the global ...

(AP) — A spike in demand for electricity from tech companies competing in the artificial intelligence race is upending forecasts for natural gas-fired power ... coal plants and aging nuclear ...

In the U.S., the electric power sector is the second-biggest emitter of greenhouse gases, according to government figures. And the construction of every new natural gas plant — built to last for ...

A pair of GTA post-secondary institutions have joined forces to power the future of the nuclear energy workforce. Ontario Tech University in Oshawa and Humber Polytechnic in Toronto have partnered to ...

The Palisades plant, located on Lake Michigan, was shut down in 2022 and sold to Holtec. Several other nuclear power plants operate around the Great Lakes region, including in Michigan ...

At 16, Isaiah Taylor dropped out of high school ... to revamp the way nuclear reactors are deployed and, in turn, solve the problem of scaling them. Typical nuclear power plants can take five ...