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 ...
General Fusion fires up its newest steampunk fusion reactor
The reactor, called Lawson Machine 26 (LM26), is General Fusion’s latest iteration in a string of devices that have tested ...
'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 ...
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 ...