Energy chief envisions US nuclear renaissance: restoring ‘pit’ production, localizing nuke power
Plutonium 'pits' and Small Modular Reactors are all part of Energy Secretary Chris Wright's early goals for his department.
New wave of nuclear reactors sends US states racing to attract the industry
U.S. states are positioning themselves to compete for newer, cheaper nuclear reactors being developed as communities and tech giants compete in a race for electricity ...
Knoxville nuclear company papers show 'no scientific barriers' to fusion power plant
A Knoxville-based fusion powerhouse says it's solved the fundamental science of harnessing the sun's power to produce electricity.
Russia Could Supply Small Nuclear Power Plant For Musk's Mars Mission: Putin Envoy
Russia could supply a small nuclear power plant for a mission to Mars planned by billionaire entrepreneur and SpaceX CEO Elon ...
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Xcel Energy wants to store more spent fuel at Prairie Island nuclear plant. Public hearings are this week
Xcel wants to continue operating the plant into the 2050s. It’s requesting to store an additional 34 casks of spent fuel at the site. But spent fuel storage has a history of controversy at the plant ...
Michigan nuclear plant shows the challenges the U.S. will face in safely restarting old reactors
The Palisades nuclear power plant aims to reopen in October, but the steam generators need major repairs that could delay the ...
TerraPower CEO says company on track to deploy first-of-a-kind next-gen nuclear plant in 5 years
TerraPower CEO Chris Levesque offered a sunny picture Thursday for the work underway at the Bill Gates-backed nuclear power company.
Trump hints at taking Ukraine’s nuclear power and electrical sites in Zelensky call
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is speaking to US President Donald Trump today – just hours after Ukraine was pummeled ...
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The Palisades Nuclear Plant is one step closer to restarting, thanks to $56M from the DOE
The Palisades Nuclear Plant is on track to become the first restarted commercial nuclear reactor in the United States.
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LISTEN: Supreme Court hears arguments on nuclear storage and federal agency power
The NRC granted the Texas license to Interim Storage for a facility that could take up to 5,000 metric tons of spent nuclear fuel rods from power plants and 231 million tons of other radioactive ...
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Radioisotope generators − inside the ‘nuclear batteries’ that power faraway spacecraft
While this concept sounds similar to that of a nuclear power plant, RTGs work on a different ... surrounding the plutonium, which heats up that material. The radioactive decay of plutonium-238 ...