Nuclear power is the only truly low-emissions electric power generating source that could work on today’s power grid Small modular reactors have gained plenty of traction lately as a potential Continue Reading
Nuclear power is making a comeback as it has become clear that renewable energy alone cannot meet global demand Small-scale modular SMR nuclear reactor may well be the key to Continue Reading
Dennis White, at left, the cofounder of Commonwealth Fusion Systems, and Bob Mumgaard, the company’s CEO, at MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center. IN TRYING TO EXPLAIN their recent fusion Continue Reading
Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Commonwealth Fusion Systems successfully tested the world’s most powerful high-temperature superconducting magnet in a step toward building a fusion power plant to generate carbon-free power. Continue Reading
LLNL The research takes place at the National Ignition Facility in Livermore, California A US science institute is on the verge of achieving a longstanding goal in nuclear fusion research. Continue Reading
U.S. scientists are at the threshold of fusion ignition after achieving a large amount of energy in an experiment at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, the LLNL said Continue Reading
Scientists have come tantalizingly close to reproducing the power of the sun — albeit only in a speck of hydrogen for a fraction of a second. Researchers at Lawrence Livermore Continue Reading
Nuclear energy had been falling further and further out of favor amid falling costs for renewable energy installations. But suggestions of its death have been highly exaggerated. The $1-trillion bipartisan Continue Reading
China started this week construction work on a new US$17-billion nuclear power plant project, for which it will install Russian nuclear reactors at the Xudabao project in northeastern China, World Continue Reading
The Chinese plant operator said it had shut down one reactor after “lengthy” talks with technical staff A Chinese nuclear plant has shut down one of its reactors for maintenance Continue Reading
The British government is exploring ways to remove China’s state-owned nuclear energy company from all future power projects in the UK, including the consortium planning to build the new É20bn Continue Reading
Germany has gathered support from four European Union countries around its opposition to classifying nuclear energy as “green” and sustainable for investment purposes, a letter to the Commission seen by Continue Reading
At Dungeness B nuclear power station on a remote stretch of the Kent coast in south-east England, workers are making preparations to carefully remove thousands of radioactive fuel elements from Continue Reading
Nuclear propulsion for cargo vessels spurred by carbon regulation Samsung sees nuclear power as potential eco-friendly shipping option Reactor design could also be used in floating power plants South Korea’s Continue Reading
Nuclear power is an indispensable part of the Biden administration’s plan to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 52 percent over the next ten years, Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said at Continue Reading
PI3 Plasma Injector at General Fusion. A nuclear fusion startup backed by billionaire Jeff Bezos will build its first pilot power plant outside of London, potentially accelerating a new way Continue Reading
A nuclear power plant in southeastern China could turn into an “imminent radiological threat,” the part owner of the facility, a French company, has told the United States, CNN reported Continue Reading
Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) is making a full-scale effort to develop offshore nuclear power plant technology. SHI has signed a Molten-Salt Reactor (MSR) development and joint research agreement with the Continue Reading
TerraPower Natrium reactor Coal and natural gas together produce two-thirds of our electricity , almost equally split between them. Nuclear produces 20%, hydro produces 7%, and renewables about 7%. Oil Continue Reading
Billionaire Bill Gates’ advanced nuclear reactor company TerraPower LLC and PacifiCorp (PPWLO.PK) have selected Wyomingto launch the first Natrium reactor project on the site of a retiring coal plant, the Continue Reading
The United Kingdom will start work to create a regulatory framework for supporting research and development of nuclear fusion technology to enable the delivery of clean and safe energy, the Continue Reading
Sensors have detected increased levels of neutrons in an inaccessible chamber at the Chernobyl site, signaling that nuclear fission reactions are taking place in the entombed reactor hall, Science reports Continue Reading
The U.S. Administration has reportedly realized that America cannot reach its new ambitious emission-reduction goals without nuclear power generation. The White House has signaled it could create new subsidies to Continue Reading
One of the pair of active nuclear reactors within blast radius of Manhattan made a federal safety watch-list back in 1993. That’s when regulators cited Unit 3 at the Indian Point Energy Center for Continue Reading
1,041-MW Indian Point Unit 3 to shut down Capacity likely replaced with gas-fired power The Indian Point nuclear power plant in New York will permanently shut down during the evening Continue Reading
The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) is the largest nuclear fusion experiment in the world. The megaproject is a collaborative effort funded and run by seven members: the European Union, Continue Reading
Coal-fired electricity generation in the United States was lower than power generation from natural gas and nuclear plants in 2020, with coal dropping out of the top two electricity sources Continue Reading
About once a month, the same group of two dozen Japanese government officials, company executives and professors file into a bland white and beige conference room at the nation’s economy, trade and Continue Reading
Nuclear power generation is necessary for the world to have cleaner energy solutions, although nuclear has yet to convince naysayers who generally associate it with Chernobyl or nuclear weapons, according Continue Reading
The European Council has agreed Eur5.61 billion ($6.80 billion) of new funding for the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, or ITER, project for the seven years to 2027, it said Feb. Continue Reading
On Wednesday January 27th, the International Energy Agency (IEA) released a long-awaited report called “Conditions and requirements for the technical feasibility of a power system with a high share of Continue Reading
The first floating nuclear power unit in 40 years, the Akademik Lomonosov. This story was originally published by The Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk Continue Reading
Canada Minister of Natural Resources Seamus O’Regan, released a national SMR Action Plan, which responds to the 53 recommendations identified in Canada’s SMR Roadmap that was launched in November 2018. Continue Reading
China has successfully installed an “artificial sun” device designed to test nuclear fusion processes, Chinese state media reported on Friday. The HL-2M Tokamak was installed in Chengdu of the Sichuan Continue Reading
The US Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW) has approved a bipartisan bill that, among other provisions, advances the federal initiative to establish a US national strategic uranium Continue Reading
The first operators of miniature nuclear reactors described their job as “tickling the tail of a sleeping dragon” because of the danger involved with unlocking the energy in atoms Those units built Continue Reading
Stakeholders in the maritime industry are considering an increased uptake of nuclear power as one of its choices as it strives to meet decarbonization targets that the International Maritime Organization Continue Reading
Reading through the nuclear news of the past weeks, the attentive reader might have come across an under-the-radar dispute of Austria and United Kingdom, perhaps one of the most unfathomable Continue Reading
For the past several decades, the United States has been the poster child for the ailing state of the nuclear industry. The nuclear sector in the U.S. is plagued by Continue Reading
The federal Canadian government has allocated US$15.11 million (C$20 million) for investments in mini nuclear power plants as part of efforts to reduce the country’s carbon footprint. The money will Continue Reading
Nuclear energy has long been touted as a promising form of energy production for a decarbonizing global economy. Nuclear power is efficient, it’s established, and it has zero carbon emissions. Continue Reading
The US Department of Energy has awarded two companies proposing next-generation nuclear reactors $80 million each in an initial award as part of a $3.2 billion program to build two Continue Reading
Long relegated to the trash heap of utopic clean energy technologies in the realm of harvesting energy from black holes , nuclear fusion is suddenly making a big comeback–and for Continue Reading
Nuclear has long been touted as one of the most promising”clean” energy alternatives to fossil fuels. As a form of energy production with zero carbon emissions, it’s commonly seen as Continue Reading
The decades-old dream of many scientists and science fiction writers may come true at some point over the next decade. Researchers at MIT and a startup spun out of MIT Continue Reading
Energy analysts tend to agree that nuclear fusion will have to replace fission at power plants to bring back more support for nuclear as a clean energy source. The challenge Continue Reading
We all knew that 2020 would be an incredibly tough year for nuclear energy. In the United States, the sector has been on the decline for years, saddled with hazardously Continue Reading
For decades, the nuclear energy sector has been regarded as the black sheep of the alternative energy market thanks to a series of high-profile disasters such as Chernobyl, Fukushima, and Continue Reading
The oil industry’s search for carbon-free alternatives to fossil fuels has led to many interesting investment decisions over the years. Somewhere high on that list is nuclear fusion, the energy Continue Reading
The United States’ nuclear sector is in trouble. And it has been for years now. While the United States remains the largest producer of nuclear energy in the world, producing Continue Reading
