Is This New 50-Year Battery for Real?
Wouldn’t it be cool if you never had to charge your cell phone? I’m sure that’s what a lot of people were thinking recently, when a company called BetaVolt said …
Nuclear Power
All 3 Democrats In California Senate Race Come Out Against Nuclear Plant
All three Democrats vying to be California’s next U.S. senator expressed support for closing the state’s last nuclear power station at this week’s final televised debate before next month’s primary …
Democrats And Industry Clash Over Controversial Energy Plan
OSWEGO, N.Y. — On the snowy eastern shore of Lake Ontario sits a beige metal shipping container roughly the size of a mobile home. Inside, a machine called an electrolyzer …
Sellafield: Europe’s most toxic nuclear site – podcast | News
The Guardian has found that the UK’s most hazardous nuclear site, Sellafield, has been hacked into by cyber groups closely linked to Russia and China, as well as uncovering other …
The debate over nuclear’s role in the energy transition continues
Cooling towers at a nuclear power plant in Slovakia. Nuclear power is likely to be discussed in great detail at the COP28 climate change summit in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. …
Portugal’s Political Chaos Could Be Big For Nuclear Energy
LISBON, Portugal ― After nearly five hours in a stuffy, cream-walled classroom on the second floor of a college physics department last Tuesday night, Luis Guimarãis stood up and broached …
The First Small-Scale Nuclear Plant in the US Died Before It Could Live
The plan for the first small-scale US nuclear reactor was exciting, ambitious, and unusual from the get-go. In 2015, a group of city- and county-run utilities across the Mountain West …
U.S. Nuclear Reactor Project Crumbles Into Failure
The project meant to debut small modular reactors, the technology the nuclear energy industry hopes will spur a renaissance of atomic power construction, collapsed Wednesday night amid mounting financial troubles. …
Microsoft is hiring a nuclear energy expert to help power data centers
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks at an event on the company’s campus in Redmond, Washington, on Feb. 7, 2023. Chona Kasinger | Bloomberg | Getty Images Artificial intelligence takes a …
Radiation Is Everywhere. But It’s Not All Bad
For many of the sources you encounter in everyday life, the amount of radiation is so low that you don’t need to worry about it. But ionizing radiation can also …