Nuclear power plants can provide a continuous and reliable supply of energy because they operate at full capacity nearly uninterrupted. This contrasts with variable renewable energy sources, such as ...
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 ...
Japan is reviving nuclear power, balancing the need for more clean energy against the lingering trauma of the 2011 Fukushima ...
Nuclear power plays a complicated role in the global energy landscape. Officials spark backlash with controversial plans for world's oldest nuclear power plant — here's what's happening first appeared ...
The U.K. once had more nuclear power stations than the U.S., USSR and France combined but hasn't completed a reactor since 1995. Nuclear energy accounted for 14% of the U.K.'s power supply in 2023 but ...
NIIGATA, Japan, Dec 22 (Reuters) - The Japanese region of Niigata is expected to endorse a decision to restart the world's largest nuclear power plant on Monday, a watershed moment in the country's ...
On a small island in the Aare River, the world’s oldest operating nuclear power station is suddenly at the center of a national argument about risk, climate policy, and trust. The Beznau plant in ...
The Palisades Nuclear Generating Station is nestled between sand dunes on the eastern shore of Lake Michigan. It shut down for financial reasons in 2022. Three years later, it’s on the cusp of ...
As U.S. electricity demand rises and technology companies seek to build more and larger data centers to drive artificial intelligence systems, the main question arising is how to generate all that ...
A local government in Japan voted Monday to restart the world's largest nuclear power plant, which has been closed since 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster. A local assembly in Japan voted to restart the ...
U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright announced Monday that the Department of Energy’s Loan Programs Office (LPO) will largely focus on financing nuclear power plants. "By far the biggest use of those ...
The first safety-related concrete has been poured for the reactor building of unit 1 at the Zhaoyuan nuclear power plant in Shandong province. It is the first of six HPR1000 (Hualong One) units ...