Saudi Arabia has constructed with Chinese help a facility for extracting uranium yellowcake from uranium ore, an advance in the oil-rich kingdom’s drive to master nuclear technology, according to Western Continue Reading
One of the world’s largest oil producers and exporters, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), has just launched the first nuclear power plant in the Arab world. Touted as a major Continue Reading
A series of measures have been announced aimed at making the economy more environmentally friendly such as a ban on outdoor heaters at bars and restaurants, more efficient domestic heating Continue Reading
What do The Dark Knight Rises, Back to the Future, Oblivion, and Interstellar have in common ? They are sci-fi megahits that showcase a technology that scientists consider the Holy Continue Reading
The United States nuclear power sector has been in steep decline for years. Even though nuclear energy, which produces zero greenhouse gas emissions, stands to have a huge advantage as Continue Reading
The tokamak building at Iter will house the structure where fusion will be controlled The world’s biggest nuclear fusion project has entered its five-year assembly phase. After this is finished, Continue Reading
The US International Development Finance Corporation has ended a ban on financing nuclear power projects and “will prioritize the support of advanced nuclear technology in emerging and frontier markets,” the Continue Reading
As long as science fiction writers have been imagining it, scientists have been trying to make it a reality. The holy grail of clean energy. The silver bullet solution to Continue Reading
Nuclear power has high hopes of coming back as a serious competitor in the utility sector through nuclear fusion, but it’s been requiring massive investments and several more years of Continue Reading
Low levels of radiation spotted in northern Europe may have come from a malfunctioning nuclear power plant in western Russia . Nuclear safety officials from Finland, Norway and Sweden have Continue Reading
