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Nuclear power’s tailwind in Washington.

“Freshly passed legislation and new rules from the Biden administration are putting teeth behind a renewed bipartisan push for nuclear power, which has suffered major setbacks in recent decades despite advocates’ repeated predictions over the years that the industry was […]

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How to scale nuclear power.

Venture investor Ryan McEntush writes that the tides are turning for nuclear energy after a long hiatus from building new reactors. Not only does it seem that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission is speeding up its review process, but also a […]

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Is nuclear power for east African countries a bad idea?

Hartmut Winkler is a Professor of Physics at University of Johannesburg and a contributor to the 2023 edition of the World Nuclear Industry Status Report. He thinks the planned nuclear plants for Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya and Tanzania are a bad […]

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New day for nuclear power?

The fuel for almost all the cutting-edge nuclear reactors is high-assay, low-enriched uranium fuel (HALEU—pronounced hey-lou). The problem is the Russian government owns the only company in the world that sells it. Yet there remains optimism in the industry thanks […]

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Nuclear power for the moon

“Because resupply missions are challenging and sunlight doesn’t reach some parts of the Moon, NASA is betting that simple, lightweight nuclear reactors are the way to go.” I especially love this because when I was a kid, I thought it’d […]