Is The Trump Presidency A Boon For Nuclear Power?
By now, the shock from Donald Trump’s victory in the U.S. presidential election should be starting to subside, but this is hardly the case with worries over America’s course to Continue Reading
Is This The Beginning Of The End For U.S. Nuclear Power?
Nuclear power plant Energy companies are shutting down their nuclear power plants and resorting to other forms of production. This is primarily due to the lack of funding and cheaper Continue Reading
Saudi Arabia to Select Nuclear Power-Plant Site ‘Very Soon’
Saudis to announce “concrete plans” for nuclear within a year Neighbor U.A.E. signs reactor deal with Korea Electric Power Saudi Arabia will soon choose a site for its first nuclear Continue Reading
Three and a half years after Fukushima, 3 of Japan’s 54 nuclear reactors are operating
U.S. Energy Information Administration, based on Institute of Energy Economics, Japan, and IAEA Power Reactor Information System Source: Since the accident at Fukushima Daiichi in March 2011 and the subsequent Continue Reading
Japan’s ‘Hail Mary’ at Fukushima Daiichi: An Underground Ice Wall
The part above ground doesn’t look like much, a few silver pipes running in a straight line, dwarfed by the far more massive, scarred reactor buildings nearby. More impressive is Continue Reading
Nuclear developers have big plans for pint-sized power plants in UK
A range of mini-nuclear power plants could help solve Britain’s looming power crunch, rather than the $24 billion Hinkley project snarled up in delays, companies developing the technology say. So-called Continue Reading
Bill Gates And Other Billionaires Backing A Nuclear Renaissance
Let’s for a second imagine a world without nuclear energy. That’s a tough one but let’s try. No nuclear bombs, of course, no Chernobyl and Fukushima, no worries about Iran Continue Reading
The Sierra Club Still Opposes Nuclear Power
“ Green Groups Ease Opposition to Nuclear Power ” (Business & Tech, June 17) gets it wrong. The Sierra Club remains in firm opposition to dangerous nuclear power. The article Continue Reading
Pacific Gas & Electric to Close California’s Last Nuclear Plant by 2025
California’s last nuclear power plant will close in 2025, after Pacific Gas & Electric Co. reached an agreement with labor and environmental groups, the parties said Tuesday. The San Francisco-based Continue Reading
Fusion megaproject confirms 5-year delay
The ITER fusion reactor will fire up for the first time in December 2025, the €18-billion project’s governing council confirmed today. The date for “first plasma” is 5 years later Continue Reading