Nuclear reactions : documenting American encounters with nuclear energy / edited by James W. Feldman Smithsonian Libraries and Archives ...

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.

The taming of nuclear fission into a source of controlled power was a breakthrough met with great hope and deep distrust.

Faith in the US nuclear umbrella is wavering and adversaries are stockpiling their arsenals. How worried should we be?

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 ...

The world’s largest and most influential development bank said on Wednesday it would lift its longstanding ban on funding nuclear power projects.

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 ...

The New York Power Authority previously operated two nuclear plants: the James A. FitzPatrick plant in Oswego County, currently owned by Constellation Energy; and the Indian Point 3 plant in ...

The new project, called Sizewell C, will be expensive to build, but it will create 10,000 jobs and provide a steady supply of electric power for millions of homes.

If all goes to plan, Virginia will be the site of the world’s first grid-scale nuclear fusion power plant, able to harness this futuristic clean power and generate electricity from it by the ...

Project Independence was abandoned for a variety of reasons. The upside is if another president wants to set an ambitious energy goal, critics can’t deride it as a warmed-over Nixonian plan.