If the sustainable-chemistry world has a holy grail, it’s turning carbon dioxide from threat into feedstock. And two start-ups are reporting advances in their quest to make CO 2 a feedstock for fuel: ...
X-Energy Reactor Co., an advanced nuclear company backed by Amazon.com Inc., received federal approval to make uranium fuel for advanced reactors, the first such new license in more than 50 years. The ...
Startup Inertia Enterprises Inc. today announced that it has raised $450 million in funding to build a laser-powered fusion reactor. Bessemer Venture Partners led the round. It was joined by Alphabet ...
The San Antonio Bay Estuarine Waterkeeper is protesting the building of four small nuclear reactors in Seadrift, and has the backing of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). The environmental ...
From molten salt to TRISO fuel, here’s how technological advancements could upend an old power technology. Commercial nuclear reactors all work pretty much the same way. Atoms of a radioactive ...
Three major nuclear reactor accidents—Three Mile Island (1979 in the United States), Chernobyl (1986 in Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union), and Fukushima Dai-ichi (2011 in Japan)—significantly ...
America’s nuclear renaissance has taken an important step forward with the latest news emanating from the state of Tennessee, where it was announced that TRISO-X has now commenced vertical ...
A nuclear power plant in Brunswick County has operated for a half-century. Duke Energy’s Brunswick Nuclear Plant is celebrating 50 years of commercial power generation, Duke Energy announced in a news ...
Studies suggest that nearly half a million people died in the U.S. alone from complications related to pollution from coal-fired electrical plants in the 21 years from 1999 to 2020, yet nobody seems ...