Commercial

Commercial Shipping Could Go Nuclear

In the global race toward an emissions-free transportation sector, commercial shipping presents a particular challenge—massive cargo ships depend on toxic, carbon-spewing heavy fuel oil, which they need loads of for their long journeys.

CommercialWaste

Deep Isolation Is Thinking Ahead

Deep Isolation and its partners have built a first prototype of a nuclear waste disposal canister. It’s an important step toward a working system to safely dispose of spent fuel in boreholes deep beneath the Earth’s surface. Buried deep: Deep Isolation is on a mission to develop a long-term solution for disposing of nuclear waste […]

Commercial

Welding Just Got a Futuristic Upgrade

Despite the hype for the relative simplicity and lower building costs of SMRs, they can still take years to construct and cost billions of dollars in the process. A British engineering company called Sheffield Forgemasters thinks it can heat things up.

CommercialReactors

Four Reactors are Better than One, UK Says

Privately-funded SMRs are hitting the UK for the first time. On Thursday, energy giant Westinghouse announced that it signed an agreement with Community Nuclear Power, Ltd. (CNP) to deploy four of its AP300 SMRs in the English North Teesside region.  Under the agreement, CNP and Westinghouse hope to get a fleet of four AP300s up […]