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.
Rolls-Royce Wants To Put a Nuclear Reactor on the Moon by 2029, Has the Funding To Do It
19 Mar 2023, 20:05 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / With the blessing of the ESA member state UK Space Agency, Rolls-Royce revealed that a new round of funding had been secured to build a Moon reactor
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
Helion Energy Built the V8 of Nuclear Fusion Reactors, Company Rep Explains How
3 Feb 2023, 18:06 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Though we're far from nuclear engineers, Helion did a wonderful job explaining Helion's fusion reactors in a way regular folks can understand
Stellarator Reactors: The Once Forgotten, All-American Approach to Nuclear Fusion
31 Jan 2023, 02:32 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / 25 years after his death in 1997, perhaps the most underappreciated theoretical physicist in American history might be about be vindicated
ITER: A Global Scientific Dream Team Building the World's Largest Fusion Reactor
29 Jan 2023, 19:43 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / It took the world's two preeminent global superpowers coming together for a shared purpose of deciphering the same mechanisms that power every star
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.
France's Nuclear Energy Grid Is the Toast of Europe, But It's Not Enough to Save Everyone
3 Jan 2023, 23:24 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The French nuclear reactor fleet dotted across the French landscape were built to solve the 1973 OAPEC-driven oil crisis. Some decay has taken place since then
11 Years Post Fukushima, Japan Won't Back Down From Nuclear Energy
25 Dec 2022, 23:02 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / According to reports from NPR, Japan has recently backtracked a substantial amount of the anti-nuclear political sentiment held since the Fukushima disaster
Here's How Nuclear Fusion Could Change the Auto Industry Forever, It's Great News for EVs
24 Dec 2022, 21:42 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / What does this mean for the auto industry? Let's put it this way. If you think electric vehicles will be expensive to charge, it won't be with fusion energy
Helion Trenta: A Nuclear Fusion Reactor Unlike Anything You've Seen Before
20 Dec 2022, 19:12 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Founded less than a decade ago in 2013, Helion Energy's already staked its claim as one of the most important private alternative energy companies
Next-Gen Micro Nuclear Reactors Could Be the Answer for Carbon-Free Electricity
1 Jul 2021, 13:07 UTC · By: Otilia Drăgan / Researchers are developing a nuclear reactor that is so small that is can be called a "nuclear battery", which could provide sustainable energy for all sectors.
The Famed Lada, Redesigned and Geared Toward Autonomous Mobility for 2050
6 Nov 2020, 09:10 UTC · By: Cristian Curmei / A Lada-branded autonomous vehicle for the year 2050. Unlike the classic off-roader, this one is designed to run on nuclear energy and can’t do much off roading.