China builds nuclear plant that can’t meltdown
Nuclear energy is clean and scalable, but meltdown fears prevent it from being deployed more widely.
Tag: nuclear energy
AI companies plan to use nuclear energy for their energy-hungry data centers. But should they?
AI data centers may require 2.5 times more electricity than conventional data centers. Where will all this extra electricity come ...
Belgium postpones plans to phase out nuclear power by 10 years on account of high energy uncertainty
The war in Ukraine is keeping nuclear power running in Belgium.
France is poised for a massive investment in nuclear energy, with six new reactors planned by 2050
The country seems to be going against the flow by ensuring a steady supply of nuclear energy for the future.
A startup proposes using autonomous microreactors fueled by nuclear waste to produce energy
It would also, conveniently, take care of our nuclear waste.
What are nuclear reactors and how do they work?
The ultimate embodiment of ‘high risk, high rewards'.
Scientists use nuclear reactor to investigate Amelia Earhart’s mysterious disappearance
A metal plate thought to have once belonged to Earhart's plane was probed for hidden secrets using neutron beams.
Europe is so hot right now that it has to stop its nuclear plants
There's a particular irony to this situation.
The first new Thorium salt reactor comes online after 40 years
This could be huge.
Switzerland votes against strict phase-out of nuclear energy
Switzerland is, as you'd expect, one of the countries with the cleanest energy.
German nuclear fusion machine starts running
German scientists have turned on a device called a stellerator, the largest of its kind. The machine could pave the ...
NASA: Nuclear power instead of coal saved 1.8 million lives between 1971-2009
According to a study conducted by NASA in 2013, using nuclear energy instead of coal saved almost 2 million lives ...
Is going nuclear the key for more sustainable energy?
The world is at an extremely dangerous crossroads: if we keep using non-renewable hydrocarbons and coal the way we have, ...
Nuclear power wrongfully stigmatized. It’s essential to scrapping fossil fuel, top biologists say
An open letter authored by more than 65 biologists calls for conservation groups and efforts to take a step back and ...
‘Hybrid’ nuclear plants could cut carbon emissions
Hybrid nuclear plants, working in conjunction with geothermal, shale oil, or hydrogen production could help slow climate change, and provide ...
Fission nuclear engines tested for deep space flight
A proposed deep-space probe to Jupiter that uses the radioactive nuclear engine proposed at NASA and Los Alamos. (c) Los ...
People, planet, profit or politics? Japan’s energy debate hots up
While the world is absorbed in the raging solar storm between America and China, with Europe deciding whether or not ...
Particle accelerator can transmute radioactive waste and drastically lower half-life decay
A schematic of the MYRRHA (Multi-purpose hYbrid Research Reactor for High-tech Applications) concept allows for industrial scale treatment of nuclear ...
The new safe face of nuclear energy
There seems to be a global trend against atomic energy, even though coal is much, much more dangerous in the ...
Japan nuclear danger still dwarfed by coal threat
The situation at the Fukushima nuclear plant was dangerous for several weeks, but the danger of nuclear power plants has ...
Japan giving up nuclear plants would cause significant carbon emission raise
As Japan struggles to control the situation at the Fukushima power plant, an even more complicated question arises; where will ...
Nuclear energy – 4.000 times safer than coal plants
With all the big fuss regarding the nuclear power plant problems in Japan, everybody seems to be throwing rocks at ...
Iran almost completed their first nuclear reactor. Should we worry ?
This seems to be the one of the most asked questions these days; what's my opinion on it ? You ...
