All of them face unresolved questions around nuclear waste. But the low-carbon electricity provided by existing nuclear power plants is increasingly valuable in the fight against climate change.
CORE POWER has hired naval architecture and marine engineering firm Glosten to help its team design a floating nuclear power ...
The first generation of nuclear power plants were built in the 1950s and 1960s and were based on light water reactor technology. These reactors use water as a coolant and neutron moderator ...
TerraPower, the nuclear energy company founded by former Microsoft CEO and co-founder Bill Gates, announced it has a ...
How nuclear power plants became so expensive to build Nuclear power plants began cropping up in the US in the 1960s. Back then, they were cheap to build. By some measures, building a nuclear plant ...
While nuclear power plants have become ubiquitous, they all operate using nuclear fission — but one energy startup has plans to change this. Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS), a spinoff branch ...
Amid the energy transition away from fossil fuels, nuclear power's influence is expected ... needs by 2040 A supplier of fuel for nuclear power plants has announced a $60 million expansion in ...