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Changing Global Foreign Policy on Importation and Exportation of Raw Materials: A 2024 Overview
US Uranium Production Surge: In 2024, U.S. uranium production more than tripled, driven by concerns over foreign supply reliability, including Russia. The increase comes amid efforts to reduce dependence on Russian uranium imports, which are now banned under the...
Microsoft’s Autonomous AI Agents: A New Era in Business Technology
Microsoft will allow organizations to create their own AI agents through its Copilot studio, enhancing business operations with autonomous virtual workers that utilize machine learning and natural language processing. The launch of Microsoft’s AI agents coincides...
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...
Russia’s Dominance in Nuclear Fuel Shows West’s Dependence on Russian Uranium Enrichment
Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in winter 2022, the United States and European Union have applied numerous layers of sanctions and restrictions upon Russian hydrocarbons, especially oil. Yet even as the US and EU have reduced their dependence on Russian fossil...
After 65 Years of American Nuclear Industry, Politics Splits States and the Public
When President Eisenhower opened America’s first commercial nuclear power plant in May 1958, nuclear’s future looked bright and popular. After a slow start, by the late 1960s many nuclear plants were under construction in the US, with most of the 100+ reactors coming...
