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The Potentially Imminent Danger of the Kursk Nuclear Power Plant
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) director Rafael Mariano Grossi released an apprehensive general statement on August 26th, 2024 regarding the security of the Kursk Nuclear Power Plant (KNPP) amid Russian-Ukrainian conflicts. Military tensions between...
U.S. Pumps More Oil than Any Country…Ever
In 2024, U.S. crude oil production hit a record 13.4 million barrels per day, driven by advancements in fracking and horizontal drilling, positioning the U.S. as the world's largest oil producer, ahead of Saudi Arabia and Russia. Despite the push for renewable energy...
Nuclear Power Takes the Spotlight: North Carolina’s Bold Step towards Clean Energy
North Carolina is considering a bill, this bill would label nuclear energy as clean energy. The bill will change North Carolina’s Renewable Energy Portfolio Standard (RPS) to include nuclear energy listed as a clean energy source. Currently, the bill is in the North...
Unleashing the Power of X-rays: A Game-Changer for Energy Storage and Medicine
TL;DR The benefits of an upgraded APS consist of: Improved understanding of materials: Stronger X-rays will enable scientists to analyze materials in greater detail, discovering new understandings of their structure and dynamics. These insights will help shape the...
Will Government Support Ignite a Hydrogen Boom or Bust?”
A decade ago Toyota was the world’s biggest carmaker, and it remains so, selling over two million more vehicles last year than second-ranked Volkswagen. Also a decade ago Toyota announced that it had designed a hydrogen fuel cell sedan, the Mirai (Japanese for...
EV Charging Crisis: Can America Keep Up with the Surge in Electric Vehicle Ownership?
December 1975 was a rough month. On the second day of the month terrorists seized a train in the Netherlands, taking scores of hostages. The next day thieves took bank customers hostage in Paris. The following week militias took over hotels in Beirut. Two weeks later...
The Rising Tide of Nuclear Energy: A Cleaner Future Amidst Environmental Challenges
The oil and gas industry has a flatulence problem. While any gas that is allowed to escape from an oil or gas operation is theoretically money lost, most projects have some gas that cannot be safely and properly captured and is instead allowed to escape. Methane is...
The Interconnection Bottleneck and the Future of Nuclear Energy
Build electricity-generating machines, connect to the grid, and generate revenue. The steps sound easy, if not cheap. Yet as time-consuming and expensive as it can be to acquire the funding, parts, land, and labor to construct a fleet of wind turbines or solar panels,...
The Untold Story of Grid Stability: Why Nuclear Power Is the Unsung Hero
.Tourists who visit the South Street Seaport in lower Manhattan find history all around them. At the eponymous museum floats the Wavertree, an iron sailing ship from 1885. Turning north they see a 60 foot lighthouse, a memorial to those who perished with the Titanic -...
Nuclear Power Play: France’s Ambitions in China Revealed
When French president Emanuel Macron visited Beijing in April to meet with China’s president, Xi Jinping, he came to discuss geopolitics and business. He rankled officials in the European Union and United States with certain comments, turning attention away from the...
As EU Considers Sanctioning Russian Nuclear Fuel, Europe and The Unites States Starts to Produce Their Own
As Nuclear Insider has covered, Russia's dominance in nuclear fuel shows wests dependence on Russia uranium enrichment, the United States and the European Union, among others, remain dependent upon Russian uranium and uranium conversion and enrichment services. As...
