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Amazon is Banking on Small Modular Reactors to Power the Future
Amazon Goes Nuclear: Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces three separate investments in small modular nuclear reactor (SMR) projects, partnering with utilities like Energy Northwest and Dominion Energy. Partnerships for SMRs: AWS is collaborating with utilities to...
SpaceX Achieves Breakthrough in Rocket Reusability with Historic Super Heavy Booster Capture
SpaceX successfully launched its Super Heavy-Starship rocket, showcasing a groundbreaking feat by capturing the massive first stage booster mid-air using mechanical "mechazilla" arms, advancing their goal of full rocket reusability. The Starship upper stage completed...
Vogtle Plant, America’s Largest Nuclear Power Facility Running at 100% Capacity. Receives Billions in Funding.
The Vogtle power plant is the largest nuclear power plant in america With the recent success of unit 3 of the Vogtle plant, over 500,000 homes and businesses can be powered with clean energy The Vogtle plant is helping with the fight against climate change and is...
Powering the Future: Ontario’s Pledge for Sustainable Nuclear Energy
For the first time since 2005, Ontario announces a new desire for energy and intends a sustainable solution, the government states. Strong economic and population growth sparked the need for more prolific nuclear energy sources. Ontario’s Independent Electricity...
The Costly Challenge: Licensing Next-Generation Nuclear Reactors in the United States
Creating nuclear reactors that provide clean affordable energy has been a goal that many nuclear developers strive for. Nuclear reactors are what many believe are the future of clean energy and how we use it. However, erecting these reactors is extremely costly and...
The Nuclear Renaissance: Japan’s Bold Move to Restart and Expand its Reactor Fleet
When the Meiji Restoration ended the power of Japan’s shogunate and samurai in 1868, Emperor Meiji moved the capital to Tokyo, literally the “Eastern Capital.” Tokyo’s Chiyoda ward may as well be the true capital, containing the Imperial Palace, Prime Minister’s...
Controversial Nobel Prize Winner’s Nuclear Experiment in Chicago Ignites Debate and Raises Safety Concerns
In the second season of The Bear an illustrious chef transforms the Italian beef sandwich shop he inherited into a fine-dining destination in Chicago, taking his team on a journey wholly unfamiliar to them in the hopes of creating something meaningful. Eighty-one...
Revolutionizing Cancer Treatment: American Fusion Tech Giant, SHINE Technologies to Scale Up Lu-177 Production
SHINE Technologies plans to establish the largest non-carrier-added lutetium-177 production facility in North America by late 2023, following the recent opening of a similar facility in Germany. The facility will initially produce 100,000 doses of Lu-177 annually,...
Nuclear Energy in India: Modi’s Bold Plan to Tackle Energy Needs and Climate Change
Narendra Modi, head of India’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and prime minister since 2014, has an infrastructure plan. Dozens of them. One of his first, announced just three months after his inauguration, was toilets. A lot of toilets. In 2014 over half a billion...
The Battle for Power: Can Nuclear Energy Replace Coal and Reshape Communities?
1951 was a seminal year for energy and geopolitics, but Americans at the time could be forgiven for not realizing it. A few months after the United Nations headquarters opened in Manhattan, six nations signed a treaty establishing the European Coal and Steel...
DOE Seeks Volunteers for New Nuclear Waste Storage Program
The DOE is using a consent-based approach to find sites to store spent nuclear fuel. Communities can participate in a process with various steps and phases to determine whether hosting a spent fuel spot is viable for them. The DOE is not currently taking any volunteer...
