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Nuclear reactions : documenting American encounters with nuclear energy / edited by James W. Feldman Smithsonian Libraries and Archives ...
The world is heading toward a new nuclear arms race—one that’s more chaotic and dangerous than the last. The Cold War built rules of deterrence for a world of dueling superpowers and static arsenals.
A nuclear power renaissance—driven in part by power-hungry AI data centers—has revived a thorny problem: what to do with the radioactive waste left behind. Already, more than 90,000 metric ...
The taming of nuclear fission into a source of controlled power was a breakthrough met with great hope and deep distrust.
Argonne National Lab has an AI-based tool that can help design and operate nuclear reactors—at a time when AI itself is feeding a power frenzy.
AI uses a lot of power. Some of the next generation data centers may use as much power as one million U.S. households. Technology companies like Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Meta hope nuclear ...
How an unused nuclear power plant became home to a world-class acoustics lab These scientists have taken extreme measures to get away from noise.
"Michigan is home to two active nuclear power plants, with a third slated to return online within the next year," said Col. James F. Grady II, director of the Michigan State Police and state ...
The world’s largest and most influential development bank said on Wednesday it would lift its longstanding ban on funding nuclear power projects.
Shares in companies tied to nuclear power jumped Friday, helped by President Donald Trump’s rollout of four executive orders that aim to provide a boost to the sector, but there were concerns ...
America’s nuclear paradox: Yesterday’s reactors are being resurrected to power the future. For example: At Palisades, Michigan, engineers rush to repair steam generators before an October 2025 ...
Meta signed a 20-year deal with a nuclear plant in Illinois, becoming the latest tech giant to partner with the industry to power an expansion into artificial intelligence.