The state is considering allowing mass-produced reactors, defying economics and logic. The hype is built on magical thinking.

Zaporizhzhia is the largest nuclear power plant in Europe, once supplying 20 percent of domestic energy for Ukraine and even ...

Currently Leningrad NPP has four units in operation – units 3&4 with Soviet RBMK-1000 reactors, as well units 5&6 with new VVER-1200 units (also known as Leningrad-II 1&2). Units 5&6 replaced units ...

Some lawmakers think additional guardrails are needed for future uses. For now, the facility will use AI to comply with ...

Two full-size reactors in Georgia, the first new nuclear plants to be constructed in decades, took 15 years to build, seven years behind schedule, and cost twice their $14 billion budget. SMRs are ...

Russia’s Mining and Chemical Combine (GKhK – Gorno Khimicheskii Kombinat), in Zheleznogorsk, Krasnoyarsk (part of Rosatom’s ...

The fuel, also called HALEU, is more concentrated than the uranium in commercial nuclear power plant reactors, but less powerful than bomb-grade uranium. The Department of Energy could send ...

Eight technology developers have been selected and are now eligible to seek funding as part of a programme to provide fixed on-site microreactors at military installations "to support global ...

A US nuclear reactor has switched from Regular to Premium fuel with Southern Nuclear inserting four Lead Test Assemblies ...

The Ukrainian government is seeking solutions to repair the containment vessel at the Chornobyl nuclear power plant.

Equally, the experience of Japan, South Korea and China shows that nuclear plants ... nuclear power already account for around 70% of global emissions. Add those building their first reactors ...