Spain Joins Germany and Calls it Quits on Nuclear Energy, Will They Come to Regret It?
28 Dec 2023, 04:34 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / If all goes to plan, each of Spain's final six active nuclear reactors will be completely shut down by 2035 at the earliest.
U.S. NRC Approves First Molten Salt Reactor in 50 Years, Here's Why It's a Huge Deal
14 Dec 2023, 19:00 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Unlike the vast majority of past and contemporary fission reactors, molten-salt reactors do away with water entirely in their reactor section.
EV Charging Could Bring Power Grids to Their Knees, Is Nuclear Energy the Answer?
16 Oct 2023, 02:12 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / To understand why roads choked with electric cars might bode well for nuclear energy, we need to understand just how much power a fully-EV grid would require.
Demon Core: The Catastrophic Nuclear Experiment That Became a Viral Meme 80 Years Later
16 Aug 2023, 04:07 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / In an online space that often tries to digest very serious topics behind the humor of internet memes, is it surprising the demon core is making a comeback?
U.S. Dept. of Energy Wants To Use Bomb-Grade Uranium in Experiment, Sparks Outrage
2 Jun 2023, 18:12 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Even an announcement by TerraPower themselves, stating that the MCRE enriched uranium would not be used commercially did little to quell fears.
Zaporizhzhia: The Full Story of the Ukrainian Nuclear Plant Besieged by Russia
23 May 2023, 03:36 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / In many ways, Chornobyl and Zaporizhzhia are two reactor facilities joined at the hip not only by country, but by bloody warfare as well
Westinghouse AP300: A Mid-Size Reactor Designed to Make Coal-Fired Power Stations Obsolete
5 May 2023, 23:56 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / With the AP1000, AP300, and also the eVinci microreactor, the Westinghouse Electric team of Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania, managed to run the whole gamut.
Turkey's First Commercial Nuclear Reactor is Packed With Russian DNA, Will Soon Go Online
29 Apr 2023, 08:53 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Located on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea, the first fission reactor complex at this novel facility just received its first batch of uranium fuel.
Europe's Most Powerful Nuclear Reactor Just Went Online, Took 18 Years to Build
23 Apr 2023, 00:26 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / With a menacing Russian bear threatening to freeze all of Europe last winter with nat-gas pipeline shutdowns, it couldn't have come online at a better time.
Nine Mile Point: A Deep Dive Into America's Oldest Working Nuclear Reactor
2 Apr 2023, 16:21 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / This is the story of the Nine Mile Point Nuclear Generating Station. One of New York State's least appreciates technological triumphs.
Molten Salt Reactors: The Power Source That May Change Our Lives Decades Before Fusion
23 Mar 2023, 02:44 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / It's important to avoid getting caught napping when it comes to the nuclear fission side of things. Molten salt reactors are the real deal.
Minnesota Nuclear Reactor Springs Leak, 400k Gallons of Radioactive Water Escapes
19 Mar 2023, 18:20 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The 600 or so employees working at the facility were alerted to signs of an anomaly within the reactor's coolant water tank on March 16th, 2023
Germany and Spain Declare War On Nuclear Energy, Here's Why They May Regret It
16 Mar 2023, 23:01 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / It's possible Germany, and its anti-atomic coalition may one day come to regret their decision to turn their back on nuclear energy.
Westinghouse eVinci: The Pint-Sized Mini Reactor Designed to Kick Diesel to the Curb
9 Mar 2023, 23:41 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The prospects of a whole fleet of eVinci Mircroreactors replacing great swaths of dirty, cancer-causing diesel power stations sounds like a win to us.
U.S. Department of Energy To Upgrade Its Aging Fleet of Nuclear Reactors, Here's How
3 Mar 2023, 00:49 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Under the guidelines of what's dubbed the Civil Nuclear Credit Program (CNCP), the first round of federal grants is aimed at aging domestic nuclear plants
37 Years After Chernobyl, RBMK Reactors Are Still Operating in Russia
20 Feb 2023, 03:29 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Even almost 40 years after the most devastating nuclear accident in human history, the RBMK class reactor isn't a relic of the distant past
Thorium: The "87-Octane" of Nuclear Fission Fuels
12 Feb 2023, 18:19 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / While it's pretty darn hard to get our hands on any more tritium, or even sustainable nuclear fusion for that matter, there are always other options
Tritium: A “High-Octane”, Ultra-Rare Fusion Fuel We Can’t Make Nearly Enough Of
28 Jan 2023, 00:38 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / It's easy to forget that nuclear fusion and fission are two sides of the same coin. But nuclear fission reactors will be crucial to making fuel for fusion.
This One Nuclear Power Plant Makes a Fifth of Its Nation’s Energy, Could One Day Be More
21 Jan 2023, 03:14 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / It was the Canadians who supplied technology, the personnel, and considerable financial backing to help Romania achieve this profound point of Romanian pride
South Korea Stands With Japan, Will Not Back Down on Nuclear Energy
18 Jan 2023, 17:43 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Like their strategic neighbors in the Japanese, South Korea aims to ditch the stigma behind nuclear energy in any of its forms.