By the 1970s and 1980s, nuclear power plants became integral to the country’s electricity supply, providing a stable and substantial portion of the nation’s energy.
Idaho National Lab & University of Idaho team up to advance nuclear energy, cybersecurity & national security in a five-year low-carbon energy partnership.
AI's voracious energy appetite is straining already outdated power grids. Here's how nuclear and solar energy could fix that.
The bill, HB249 by Rep. Carl Albrecht, R-Richfield, aims to position Utah as a player in energy innovation and foster plans for the future for microreactors or small modular reactor technology. “We’ve got to start somewhere,” Albrecht told the committee.
That said, NuScale is pre-revenue right now, and it will take time for regulators to approve its upsized SMR and even longer to build out its facilities. As seen by the UAMPS project, there is a risk of cost overruns, and investors may have to wait a while before their investment starts to pay off.
After years of attempts to open Colorado up to nuclear energy, a bill before the legislature this year is showing new promise for the effort as Democrats sign up as co-sponsors alongside the
Minnesota’s 31-year-old ban on new nuclear power plants is facing another challenge from utility companies and supporters of nuclear power, who say the technology is necessary to meet the state’s ambitious goal of using only carbon-free sources of energy by 2040.
The University of Manchester’s policy engagement unit, Policy@Manchester, has marked Nuclear Week in Parliament by publishing a new article from a leading academic exploring the role advanced nuclear can play as a balancing technology to facilitate the generation of low-carbon hydrogen - whilst maximising renewable energy potential.
Restarting the Palisades Nuclear Plant in western Michigan will transform the facility’s neighboring towns, local county officials hope. Found just off a rural two-lane highway over 60 miles south of Grand Rapids,
TerraPower, the nuclear energy company founded by former Microsoft CEO and co-founder Bill Gates, announced it has a memorandum of understanding with a major U.S. data center developer to deploy […]
Nuclear energy is emerging as a critical solution due to a surge in global energy demand and the push for cleaner alternatives. While solar, wind and hydrogen have merits, they struggle to fully replace fossil fuels due to scalability challenges.
Tri-Cities legislator argues without nuclear energy there is no credible path to a carbon-free or thriving economy.