By the 1970s and 1980s, nuclear power plants became integral to the country’s electricity supply, providing a stable and ...

One of the factors driving the rising appetite for nuclear power is the stunning growth of AI, which relies on data centers ...

Nuclear power generates around 20 percent of the United States' electricity - a figure expected to rise as the country expands power generation to meet the growing demand from heavy manufacturing and ...

The splitting of the atom was arguably the biggest scientific achievement of the 20th century. Nuclear fission, however, ...

Abstract: The great federal infrastructure projects of the twentieth century brought new water ... The first of these was the use of nuclear energy, as an explosive and then as a controlled source of ...

The report did however make one sensible assumption, that the lifespan of the UK’s ailing fleet of five 20th century nuclear power stations (responsible for up to 13 per cent of our electricity ...

After years of public discourse related to its safety, costs and waste, nuclear power is making a comeback as a core energy ...

Water Cooled Reactors (WCRs) have been the cornerstone of the nuclear industry in the 20th century. Of the currently operating ... WCRs have passive features that do not rely on electric power and ...

All of them face unresolved questions around nuclear waste. But the low-carbon electricity provided by existing nuclear power plants is increasingly ... economy-wide net-zero emissions by or before ...