The Hill

Three ways the CHIPS Act will advance the nuclear energy industry — and it’s a good thing

The Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors (CHIPS) and Science Act of 2022 (the “CHIPS Act”), which contains myriad advanced nuclear energy technologies provisions, is a major positive ...
Grist

Smaller reactors may still have a big nuclear waste problem

This story was originally published by Wired and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Lindsay Krall decided to study nuclear waste out of a love for the arcane. Figuring how ...
VTDigger

John McClaughry: Nuclear power revival is is well under way

Commentaries are opinion pieces contributed by readers and newsmakers. VTDigger strives to publish a variety of views from a broad range of Vermonters. Commentaries give voice to community members and ...
TreeHugger

Can Venture Capitalists Fill the Science Gap?

From Google's self-driving cars to the rise of Elon Musk's Tesla Motors and disruptive solar ventures, Silicon Valley movers and shakers have long been interested in ways that science and technology ...
The New York Times

How Texas’ Power Generation Failed During the Storm, in Charts

A huge winter storm slammed Texas earlier this week, knocking out power plants and leaving millions of residents without electricity and heat for days, amid freezing conditions. A major part of the ...
City Journal

Bold new reactor designs promise safe, clean electricity.

At some point in 2021, if all goes according to plan, earthmoving equipment will arrive at a scruffy, windswept spot in eastern Idaho and begin excavating a large hole. The patch of sagebrush in ...
Mother Jones

The Smaller Is Better Movement in Nuclear Power

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. This piece was originally published in Yale Environment 360 and appears here as part ...
Grist

When it comes to nuclear power, could smaller be better?

This story was originally published by Yale Environment 360 and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Huge computer screens line a dark, windowless control room in Corvallis, ...
GeekWire

Inside the lab where Bill Gates’ TerraPower is inventing the future of nuclear energy

A panoramic view of TerraPower’s laboratory shows a full-scale fuel assembly test stand at the center of the frame – with lab facility manager Brian Morris pointing out details toward the left of the ...
Hackaday

You Wouldn’t Download A Nuclear Reactor, But Could You?

The open source submarine that won 2017 Hackaday Prize. In the last few years, we’ve even seen the idea gain traction in the hardware field. While it’s not nearly as prevalent as opening up the ...
Sustainable Brands

Could Nuclear Power Save Us from Climate Disaster?

A documentary called The New Fire tells a controversial yet hopeful story about the young entrepreneurs fueling a new energy revolution, working to turn a vilified technology — nuclear power — into a ...