Stellarium is aimed at meeting rising electricity demand, which uses liquid chloride salt fuel in a closed fuel cycle. It could become the world’s first reactor to destroy more long-lived nuclear ...
Nuclear power plants are used primarily to generate electricity, and while they're often thought of as a cleaner energy source, there is a drawback. These power plants produce waste. This waste is ...
The Savannah River Site has a total of 51 waste tanks. Eight of those tanks have been operationally closed. (From Savannah River Site fact sheet, May 2022, U.S. Department of Energy) Around the U.S., ...
Nuclear fusion could produce almost boundless energy with zero emissions or waste, but is not yet viable on a large scale because of the cost and difficulty generating the right conditions.
Whether a nuclear renaissance actually occurs in the coming decade or two depends on three fundamental questions: Are the new designs safer than their predecessors? Do the new designs lead to changes ...
A team of experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has started assessing the utilisation capabilities of the Research Reactor-1 (GHARR-1) of the Ghana Atomic Energy Commission (GAEC) ...
Trump issued executive orders in May that aim to quadruple the use of nuclear power in the U.S. by 2050, including a “wholesale revision” of Nuclear Regulatory Commission regulations. So far, so good, ...
With data centers consuming record electricity, SMRs or small modular reactors are emerging as a possible clean-power ...
INDIANAPOLIS — On Tuesday, Nov. 4, First American Nuclear (FANCO) announced they were moving to Indiana and planning to build their first energy park using their EAGL-1 small modular reactors (SMRs).
As U.S. electricity demand rises and technology companies seek to build more and larger data centers to drive artificial intelligence systems, the main question arising is how to generate all that ...
Siemens Energy supplies its SST-8000 steam turbine technology, powering the nuclear renaissance and decarbonization.