Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2025 16:46:28 +0000
Arizona’s three major electric power utilities said they will collaborate to explore adding more nuclear power generation in the state, possibly placing small modular reactors (SMRs) or building large reactor […]
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Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2025 14:00:36 +0000
Focused Energy and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in California have announced the signing of a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) to develop a model simulating the behavior of […]
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Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2025 13:16:15 +0000
Southern Co. subsidiary Georgia Power has proposed a pivot toward extending the life of several existing coal and natural gas-fired power plants into the late 2030s—well beyond previous retirement timelines—citing […]
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Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2025 22:48:21 +0000
Texas A&M University System has unveiled four nuclear developers with which it plans to explore building and operating small modular reactor plants (SMRs) at its Texas A&M-RELLIS campus near College […]
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Credit to Author: Contributed Content| Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2025 20:00:19 +0000
Nuclear power plant outages demand efficiency, safety, and a high level of coordination to execute time-critical tasks and bring plants back online quickly. When a Pennsylvania nuclear power plant faced […]
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Credit to Author: Chris Yoko| Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2025 17:01:20 +0000
As policies and regulations are adjusted to reflect a new presidential administration, the U.S. needs to unleash its full energy potential by embracing nuclear power. With opinions and regulations historically […]
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Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2025 19:35:07 +0000
Shipping nuclear propulsion start-up CORE POWER, which in November of last year announced a deal with Westinghouse for design and development of floating nuclear power plants (FNPPs), has hired an […]
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Credit to Author: Trey Lauderdale| Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2025 21:45:15 +0000
The new artificial intelligence (AI) model from China called DeepSeek created a stock market meltdown on Monday, with the Nasdaq composite dropping 3% and the S&P 500 falling 1.5%. Beyond hammering the […]
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Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2025 22:14:49 +0000
The debate over just how much power will be needed to support the artificial intelligence (AI) industry became heated when a Chinese company said it has a low-cost AI model […]
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Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2025 17:15:30 +0000
Two much-watched advanced nuclear fuel technology companies—Oklo and Lightbridge—will consider co-locating their commercial metallic fuel fabrication facilities to explore synergies and potentially accelerate innovation across the nuclear supply chain. Under […]
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