12 Jul 2024, 22:56 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / To those who only know Three Mile Island as the place where America's hostility to nuclear energy began, the notion of it going back online sounds sacrilegious
28 Dec 2023, 04:34 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / If all goes to plan, each of Spain's final six active nuclear reactors will be completely shut down by 2035 at the earliest.
14 Dec 2023, 19:00 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Unlike the vast majority of past and contemporary fission reactors, molten-salt reactors do away with water entirely in their reactor section.
16 Oct 2023, 02:12 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / To understand why roads choked with electric cars might bode well for nuclear energy, we need to understand just how much power a fully-EV grid would require.
16 Aug 2023, 04:07 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / In an online space that often tries to digest very serious topics behind the humor of internet memes, is it surprising the demon core is making a comeback?
2 Jun 2023, 18:12 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Even an announcement by TerraPower themselves, stating that the MCRE enriched uranium would not be used commercially did little to quell fears.
23 May 2023, 03:36 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / In many ways, Chornobyl and Zaporizhzhia are two reactor facilities joined at the hip not only by country, but by bloody warfare as well
5 May 2023, 23:56 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / With the AP1000, AP300, and also the eVinci microreactor, the Westinghouse Electric team of Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania, managed to run the whole gamut.
29 Apr 2023, 08:53 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Located on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea, the first fission reactor complex at this novel facility just received its first batch of uranium fuel.
23 Apr 2023, 00:26 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / With a menacing Russian bear threatening to freeze all of Europe last winter with nat-gas pipeline shutdowns, it couldn't have come online at a better time.
2 Apr 2023, 16:21 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / This is the story of the Nine Mile Point Nuclear Generating Station. One of New York State's least appreciates technological triumphs.
23 Mar 2023, 02:44 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / It's important to avoid getting caught napping when it comes to the nuclear fission side of things. Molten salt reactors are the real deal.
19 Mar 2023, 18:20 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The 600 or so employees working at the facility were alerted to signs of an anomaly within the reactor's coolant water tank on March 16th, 2023
16 Mar 2023, 23:01 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / It's possible Germany, and its anti-atomic coalition may one day come to regret their decision to turn their back on nuclear energy.
9 Mar 2023, 23:41 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The prospects of a whole fleet of eVinci Mircroreactors replacing great swaths of dirty, cancer-causing diesel power stations sounds like a win to us.
3 Mar 2023, 00:49 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Under the guidelines of what's dubbed the Civil Nuclear Credit Program (CNCP), the first round of federal grants is aimed at aging domestic nuclear plants
20 Feb 2023, 03:29 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Even almost 40 years after the most devastating nuclear accident in human history, the RBMK class reactor isn't a relic of the distant past
12 Feb 2023, 18:19 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / While it's pretty darn hard to get our hands on any more tritium, or even sustainable nuclear fusion for that matter, there are always other options
28 Jan 2023, 00:38 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / It's easy to forget that nuclear fusion and fission are two sides of the same coin. But nuclear fission reactors will be crucial to making fuel for fusion.
21 Jan 2023, 03:14 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / It was the Canadians who supplied technology, the personnel, and considerable financial backing to help Romania achieve this profound point of Romanian pride