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Converting Zimmer plant to nuclear will contain energy costs
My electric bill last month was 50% higher than a year ago for similar power usage. I understand it is due to rising costs: coal, natural gas − and especially renewables. How can we contain these…
Uranium price expected to rise in 2023 on nuclear power revival
Amid the energy crisis accelerated by the Russian-Ukraine war, countries like Japan, France, South Korea, India, the UK, the US, and Germany recently announced new constructions and additional…
A Long Way From Nuclear Fusion
The nuclear fusion community ended in 2022 with a bang, when scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California reported that they had created a reaction that produced more energy…
“A packet of poo tickets:” Barnaby’s beef with wind power goes nuclear
National Party MP Barnaby Joyce has launched an extraordinary attack on a wind farm proposed for development near Walcha in his seat of New England, calling the Environmental Impact Statement for…
GE Hitachi and 3 partners announce agreement for grid-scale SMR in Ontario, first in North America
Dive Brief:
An energy and construction partnership announced Friday an agreement to build the first grid-scale small modular reactor in North…
From a Sense of Wonder to Dread: 90 Seconds to Midnight
Image by Zoltan Tasi.
The Origins of Atomic Theory
The dangerous life of the atom and its nucleus is a recent phenomenon. The ancient Greeks invented the atom and developed a theory about it. Out…
Thank you for your support of WIPP. It has been a privilege.
The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant is a tremendous asset to southeastern New Mexico and to the nation, and Nuclear Waste Partnership is proud to have played an important role in WIPP's critical…
Nuclear industry calls for new UK reactors as ‘matter of priority’
Ministers are under pressure to launch a government agency to develop a new fleet of nuclear reactors in Britain “as a matter of a priority”, after delays caused by a funding dispute between…
Iran reports drone attack on defense facility in Isfahan
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Drones attacked an Iranian defense factory in the central city of Isfahan overnight, the state-run IRNA news agency reported early Sunday.It carried a Defense…
Biden warned of ‘nuclear conflict’ and we are now in World War III for sending tanks to…
The Biden administration has been warned the "nukes" will come and that we are in "World War III" and has been told to get this "war ended now."
The former President Donald Trump has blasted…