Revolutionary Compactness: Betavolt introduces a groundbreaking nuclear battery, leveraging advanced diamond semiconductor technology and nickel-63 isotopes to create a fingertip-sized module capable of providing uninterrupted power for 50 years. Versatile...
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# Reactor
The Path to Advanced Reactor Approval: Strengthening the Foundation to NRC’s Preparedness
The GAO's recent report identifies ongoing challenges within the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), including unclear guidance and staffing shortages, impacting its ability to efficiently approve advanced reactor applications. Recommendations from the GAO call for...
Turkey’s Nuclear Ambitions: How Putin and Erdoğan’s Cooperation Raises Concerns and Challenges the West
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan became prime minister of Turkey a week before the 2003 Iraq War. Three years after the war ended he switched from powerful prime minister to even more powerful president. On May 28th Turkey will hold a runoff election that will determine whether...
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 -...