Despite the important role that nuclear plants play in supplying the US with carbon-free, reliable baseload power, they get a bad rap. Historical concerns over the safety of nuclear energy after accidents, comparisons to nuclear weapons tech and proliferation, and pushback from environmentalists over waste and radiation have all negatively contributed to the public’s ever-changing […]
Russia is still occupying Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya, and the UN is trying to apply pressure to get it back into Ukrainian control.
There’s a fight brewing in Pennsylvania over the future of an AWS project that would hook a new data center directly up to the Susquehanna nuclear power plant. The story so far: In March, AWS made waves when it announced it had purchased a $650M data center campus from Talen Energy that had a direct […]
Congress was busy last week talking nuclear energy. A bill that spearheads regulatory changes for both fusion and fission energy has now passed both chambers of Congress and awaits only the president’s signature. The legislation passed under the banner of the Fire Grants and Safety Act, though the bulk of the bill’s text was dedicated […]
Linking industry with public and legislative support is the key to unlocking a new wave of advanced nuclear energy projects in the US, per a new Nuclear Innovation Alliance (NIA) report.
It’s official: The US is cutting off the flow of Russian uranium to its fleet of reactors.
The Nuclear Energy Institute has issued its state of the nuclear energy industry, and prospects are good.
A government watchdog is wagging a finger at the NRC for its backward-looking approach when it comes to preparing for climate change.
A bipartisan bill to address NRC fees and timelines, the Atomic Energy Advancement Act, passed in the House yesterday by a vote of 365-36.
The US is headed for a uranium shortage in the not-too-distant future, and it’s going to take significant investment to make sure that utilities have easy access to the supply they need to keep reactors ticking far into the future.
