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Inside the biggest nuclear power plant in the US

The biggest nuclear power plant in the United States is not a single hulking reactor, but a sprawling complex whose scale is ...
The Business Journals

Nuclear energy in focus: K&L Gates partners examine the emerging nuclear renaissance

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. With demand for energy in the United States rapidly rising ...
GlobalSpec Insights

What are small modular reactors, a new type of nuclear power plant sought to feed AI’s energy demand?

All the different types of small modular reactors generate heat the same way: by splitting heavy atoms and capturing the heat ...
The New York Times

How Long Will it Take to Build a Nuclear Power ‘Renaissance’ in the U.S.?

The Trump administration wants to sharply speed up the construction of nuclear power plants, but fixing the industry’s bottlenecks could take years. By Claire Brown Nuclear energy has emerged as a ...
Dallas Morning News

Does nuclear energy have a future in Texas? Here’s one person betting that it does

Unit 2 reactor is seen at Luminant's Comanche Peak Nuclear Power Plant near Glen Rose, Texas, Wednesday, March 23, 2011. (Tom Fox/The Dallas Morning News) Tom Fox/Staff Photographer / THE DALLAS ...

Nuclear waste is not an engineering problem. It’s a governance failure

As Japan takes the final steps toward restarting the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant, the world’s largest nuclear ...
The New York Times

Give Nuclear Power Another Chance

Ms. Tuhus-Dubrow is the author of “Atomic Dreams: The New Nuclear Evangelists and the Fight for the Future of Energy.” She wrote from Irvine, Calif. At the annual United Nations climate conference in ...
Poughkeepsie Journal

Do more nuclear power plants figure into New York's energy plans? Where one could be built

New York's energy future faces “extreme uncertainty,” according to the lead analyst for the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority. The war in Ukraine upended the global supply of ...
POWER Magazine

Chinese Officials Look at Converting Old Coal Plants to Nuclear Power Stations

A Chinese state-owned energy infrastructure group has proposed a decarbonization plan that would increase the country’s use of nuclear power. The China Energy Engineering Group Co. (CEEC) is studying ...

Microsoft bets that a fusion power plant from Helion Energy will be operating this decade

Microsoft agreed to buy electricity from Helion Energy's forthcoming nuclear fusion power plant. It could be an important new source of clean energy.
The Denver Post

Is nuclear power becoming cool in Colorado? Discussion of a role for it is growing

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Colorado has a new law declaring nuclear power a source of clean energy. The Denver airport might explore building a small nuclear reactor to meet the rising ...
Reuters

Helion Energy starts construction on nuclear fusion plant to power Microsoft data centers

SAN FRANCISCO, July 30 (Reuters) - Helion Energy, a startup backed by OpenAI's Sam Altman and SoftBank's venture capital arm, has started construction on a site for a planned nuclear fusion power ...