Nuclear energy is viewed by its proponents as a climate solution since reactors don’t emit the plant-warming greenhouses gases released by burning coal, gas or oil. Advances in technology have ...

SMRs are considered to be cheaper, quicker to manufacture and safer than conventional nuclear power plants, so industry experts see them as having an important role in efforts to decarbonise.

The utilities will consider both small and large nuclear reactors, with a possible new power plant envisioned 15 or more years out. The utilities have applied for a grant from the U.S. Department ...

This could be achieved by keeping existing reactors open longer or by building new nuclear power plants. Building 4 GW of new nuclear capacity would be a major shift in policy, requiring ...

will study how hydrogen production operations can help nuclear plants diversify and increase their profitability by switching between electricity production and hydrogen generation. The testing ...

"A nuclear accident can result from a direct attack on a plant, but also from power supply disruption." Grossi posted pictures of him visiting the substation alongside Energy Minister German ...

Members of the State Emergency Service attend nuclear disaster response drills amid shelling of Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, as Russia’s attack on Ukraine continues, in Zaporizhzhia ...

Today, with electricity demand soaring and AI companies clamoring for their own nuclear power plants, from small modular reactor projects to giant new nuclear builds, that century-old argument is ...

From a design perspective, SMRs come with several safety advantages over traditional large-scale nuclear plants. They are smaller, which means less nuclear material is involved, potentially reducing ...

A few months after invading Ukraine, Russia transferred more than $5B in payments to Turkey, which was being used to build the country’s first nuclear-power plant, Joe Wallae, Costas Paris ...

Southeast Asia's only nuclear power plant, completed four decades ago in Bataan, about 40 miles from the Philippine capital Manila, was built in the 1970s but left idle due to safety concerns and ...

The UK government will announce changes to planning rules to allow for the construction of more nuclear power plants. The reform is part of Prime Minister Keir Starmer's plan to grow the economy ...