Imagine this: Little black pellets made of uranium dioxide are stacked on top of each other in a silver, cylindrical rod. A rogue neutron hits a U-235 nucleus inside a pellet, causing the nucleus to ...
Unit 2 reactor is seen at Luminant's Comanche Peak Nuclear Power Plant near Glen Rose, Texas, Wednesday, March 23, 2011. (Tom Fox/The Dallas Morning News) Tom Fox/Staff Photographer / THE DALLAS ...
To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. With demand for energy in the United States rapidly rising ...
The Trump administration wants to sharply speed up the construction of nuclear power plants, but fixing the industry’s bottlenecks could take years. By Claire Brown Nuclear energy has emerged as a ...
Nuclear energy is often regarded as the cleanest power source on Earth. Unlike coal or gas, nuclear power plants don't release smoke and other contaminants into the air. They produce massive amounts ...
Ms. Tuhus-Dubrow is the author of “Atomic Dreams: The New Nuclear Evangelists and the Fight for the Future of Energy.” She wrote from Irvine, Calif. At the annual United Nations climate conference in ...
Maharashtra is advancing plans to build India's first commercial thorium-based nuclear power plants, a significant shift in ...
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Colorado has a new law declaring nuclear power a source of clean energy. The Denver airport might explore building a small nuclear reactor to meet the rising ...
In the midst of extreme cold weather, Russia has intensified its attacks on Ukraine's energy system, which relies almost ...