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 ...
CERAweek: Small nuclear power struggles at cusp of US electricity demand boom
Everyone from the U.S. energy secretary to Big Tech touts small modular nuclear reactors as a potential answer to booming ...
'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 ...
Group plans protest at Tucson Electric after utilities propose new nuclear plant
An anti-nuclear group is planning a protest at Tucson Electric Power, following word that three utilities might pursue a new reactor in Arizona.
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Retrotechtacular: Better Living Through Nuclear Chemistry
The late 1950s were such an optimistic time in America. World War II had been over for less than a decade, the economy boomed thanks to pent-up demand after years of privation, and everyone was ...
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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Switching up on steam
As plant owners increasingly look at plant life extension there are also options to increase the power output without changing the nuclear island. One opportunity comes from improving the steam ...
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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 ...
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Portable nuclear reactors are now available for your home
Nano Nuclear Energy CEO James Walker joins ‘Varney & Co.’ to share his company’s revolutionary products and its impact on the nuclear energy industry. How many of the best American movies of ...
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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.