Google’s datacentres used 30.8 million megawatt-hours of electricity, up from 14.4 million megawatt-hours in 2020, says the ...

A nuclear fission reactor core, containing the combustible uranium at the bottom of the pool in the nuclear power plant of Civaux, central France, on April 25, 2016, during a control visit. (Image ...

Fission power is a demonstrated technology. It is also scalable from large scale (the largest is the 7.97 gigawatt Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant in Japan) through to small-to-medium ...

The permit allows Oklo to progress with its plans to launch the first commercial advanced fission power plant in the US. The company noted that this announcement comes after the recent ...

A Dec. 5 fusion test in California yielded more power than it took to produce it, creating a path forward for clean energy. ... The fission process powers nuclear plants, ...

The process of nuclear fission was first discovered in 1938; however, it wasn't fully explained until a year later. Today - less than 100 years after its initial discovery - it is the poster child ...

Fission may fizzle as nuclear power reacts to economics. ... NRG Energy's vice president of nuclear oversight, speaks during a tour of the South Texas Project nuclear power plant in Wadsworth.

The power source has been experiencing a resurgence in the last few years following decades of plant closures. (Fission, used in all current nuclear plants, is distinct from fusion, the still ...

Scientists in China have now designed and tested a nuclear fission power plant that can keep itself cool even during a power outage—meaning it completely avoids the runaway heating and disaster ...

Helion, backed by OpenAI's Sam Altman, has already lined up Microsoft as its first customer. A startup backed by Sam Altman says it’s on track to flip on the world’s first fusion power plant ...