Nuclear fuel rods that work more efficiently, last much longer, and minimize nuclear waste may soon help generate more sustainable energy sources. Interesting Engineering shared the latest development ...

A New York-based company has taken a significant step to develop a proprietary, optimized ...

Liquid-fueled molten-salt reactors, another new type, could increase waste volume too. In these designs, fuel and coolant are ...

A new startup says it can turn dangerous nuclear waste into fresh usable fuel and valuable rare metals and materials, like rhodium and palladium, used in catalytic converters, and krypton-85 and ...

What if the future of energy has been sitting unused on the periodic table for decades? Mike Anderson believes it has.

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 ...

The U.S. government continues to fast-track the private sector’s role in commercializing nuclear fuel after recently selecting four companies to pilot a domestic nuclear fuel supply chain. The Nuclear ...

A major electric utility and a startup are teaming up to develop a next-generation nuclear plant for the Tennessee Valley region. “We’ve gotten a best-in-class energy company [the TVA] to have enough ...

Data center power demand is accelerating, pushing the grid to its limits and prompting tech giants to bet on next-generation nuclear reactors. But given steep costs, regulatory hurdles, and uncertain ...

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