Innovative small modular reactors, floating nuclear plants, and microreactors offer potential routes to decarbonization that many countries are embracing. However, these emerging technologies elevate ...

One of the most critical metrics for evaluating energy sources is the Levelized Cost of Electricity — which is a measure of the total cost of building and operating a power plant over its lifetime and ...

With additional funding, the Tennessee Valley Authority could provide union jobs, kick-start American industrial production, and help the world go green. Watts Bar Nuclear Plant. As I drove across ...

This last year has seen diverging paths among nations in their energy policies, but a global point of agreement is that nuclear power is no longer an optional, but rather critical component of the Ai ...

Growing worldwide energy demand and other factors have shifted the calculus, but hurdles still lie ahead. By Brad Plumer Reporting from the COP29 climate summit in Baku, Azerbaijan For years at global ...

Nuclear energy hasn’t just been making a comeback in recent months. According to many experts, including US Secretary of Energy Chris Wright, we’re heading for a “long-awaited American nuclear ...

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Scaling up nuclear power to the level needed to achieve net zero is a significant and multifaceted undertaking, and while many reactor types may play a role, large reactors are set to lead the way.

This spring kicked off the best stretch for America’s nuclear industry in decades. It started in April, when, for the first time since 1990, the United States added nuclear capacity for the second ...