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Russia builds 8 nuclear reactors to fuel massive icebreakers, floating power plants
Russia’s Rosatom, the state corporation that manages its entire nuclear energy complex, has announced the start of the ...
Idaho National Lab testing salt-fueled nuclear reactor
The lab's Molten Chloride Reactor Experiment (MCRE) is testing a reactor design that replaces traditional fuel rods with a ...
'Nervous and rushed': Massive Fukushima plant cleanup exposes workers to high radiation and stress
The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant’s radiation levels have significantly dropped since the cataclysmic meltdown 14 years ago Tuesday ...
Big Tech's big bet on nuclear power to fuel artificial intelligence
Faced with the need to cut carbon emissions, and an increasing energy demand to power AI, companies like Microsoft, Google and Amazon are investing in nuclear, from restarting Three Mile Island, to ...
Inside the huge abandoned Soviet nuclear station that ‘nearly had Chernobyl disaster'
Although Chernobyl has left a devastating legacy across Europe’s former communist bloc, including East Germany, it is a crumb of comfort that it took place at the bitter end of the Cold War in an area ...
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Lightbridge Provides Business Update and Announces Fiscal Year 2024 Financial Results
RESTON, Va., Feb. 26, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Lightbridge Corporation ("Lightbridge” or the "Company”) (Nasdaq: LTBR), an ...
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'We will go first': Holtec touts small modular nuclear reactors as future of clean energy
Two new modular nuclear reactors, dubbed SMR-300s, are planned for co-location with the restarting Palisades Plant by 2030. Each small modular reactor, or SMR, would generate approximately 300 ...
中国日报网16d
China begins construction of first nuclear power reactor of 2025
Adopting the CAP1000 third-generation pressurized water reactor design, the Lufeng nuclear power plant's No 1 reactor will incorporate modular construction, digital building technologies and ...
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Palisades nuclear plant signs agreement to build first of its kind small modular reactors in Michigan
The owner of the Palisades nuclear plant, Holtec International, signed a strategic agreement to build two small modular reactors at the site with Hyundai E&C. The agreement aims more broadly to ...
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War, loss and the unravelling of certainties, as Trump and Putin push Ukraine to the brink
Ukrainian writer Andrei Kurkov describes his country's uncertainty as US-Russian talks spark fear, internal divisions grow, and soldiers fight exhaustion.
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Companies are coming to Texas to develop a new generation of nuclear reactors
The other company, California-based Kairos Power, is building its 35 megawatt test reactor in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, the 80-year capital of American nuclear power science. Both target completion in ...
POWER Magazine18d
Russia Planning to Build More Nuclear Reactors in Iran
Iran has one operating nuclear reactor, a 1,000-MW Russian-designed VVER unit at the southern port city of Bushehr, on the coast of the Persian Gulf. Two more VVER-1000 units are under ...