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Until now the communicative relationship between energy industries and their technology was largely a one-way street. For the nuclear sector today, however, utility operations and performance can be monitored and reported back via IoT platforms connected to the Internet. Developments in sensory and communications networks, data, and analytics are making it possible for engineers and designers to make equipment and...

Science often advances incrementally, with small insights building upon one another and gradually expanding the base of human knowledge. Occasionally, however, advances come in the form of great leaps, often propelled forward by one or more singularly brilliant minds. Enrico Fermi was one such mind. One of the most accomplished and influential scientists of the 20th century, Fermi played a prominent role in unlocking...

As developing nations around the world strive to industrialize their economies, the global demand for energy continues to skyrocket. Experts in the industry are projecting a 48 percent increase of quadrillion British thermal units (Btu) on a global scale by 2040. Today most poor and developing ...

All power plants present a unique set of safety challenges. One of the biggest hazards - yet one of the least discussed - is the constant presence of powerful electrical currents. While we are trained to handle high voltage equipment regularly, it’s important to keep electrical safety practice...

Last month Wisconsin lawmakers moved to repeal a ban preventing the construction of new nuclear power plants in the state. Sponsored by Republican State Representative Kevin Petersen, he's worked to re-frame the discussion around nuclear, introducing it as "affordable, clean, safe and necessary." Peterson said he introduced the bill to give the state more flexibility in complying with federally mandated...

Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has come forth with his own plan to build upon the efforts of President Barack Obama and strengthen the United State’s climate change policies. While he is to be commended for calling attention to a subject his contemporaries continue to willfully ignore , ...

This year's COP21 meeting in Paris effectively established a new legal framework that will help curtail further planetary surface warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius. Speakers highlighted the advantages of various renewable energy technologies in achieving this goal, but nuclear was still largely sidestepped by those promoting clean power as a priority. Outside the conference rooms of Paris, however, the announcement...

Because of the serious nature of global climate change, many people are focused on renewable energy resources, such as solar cells and wind turbines, as a means of cutting global carbon emissions. Nuclear power is often left out of the discussion, but this is a mistake. Only by fully harnessing the potential of nuclear energy can humankind achieve a clean energy strategy that's effective and feasible in the near future...

Nuclear power plants generate around 20 percent of all the electricity produced in the United States, helping the nation meet its energy demands without releasing the greenhouse gases common to other types of power generation. Because there are only around a hundred such facilities nationwide, problems or issues facing any one of them could have a big impact on our critical infrastructure. Nowhere is this perhaps more...

As human populations increase around the world, dwindling freshwater reserves come under additional pressure. Already, nearly one-fifth of the globe lacks access to potable drinking water. Various water treatment methods are often too expensive to even consider, and even the most promising solutions typically come up short. Nuclear power, however, may be just the ticket for dually effective renewable energy generation...

Lately start up companies in the energy sector have concentrated mostly on "renewables" like solar and geothermal for home use, and most talk about meeting the world’s ever-growing energy needs has focused on these areas as well. Innovation in nuclear power in the private sector, has remained more stagnant for many years , and there have been few new nuclear plants opened in the past couple of decades...

Created in 1942, the world's first nuclear reactor was the brainchild of The Manhattan Project under the supervision of Enrico Fermi. Scientists discovered nuclear power to be an unlimited source of clean energy, without the environmental damage caused by fossil fuel pollutants. Hopes were high that nuclear power would save the day — producing clean, cost-effective energy while conserving the environment and...

As companies and individuals race to implement green energy solutions at both private residences and corporate facilities, there's one form of clean energy that's taking a back seat in the discussion: nuclear power. New developments in solar energy by SolarCity and Tesla Motors, both run by Elon Musk, may spell the beginning of the end for nuclear power in the United States. Nuclear power has always had the...

Chinese news anchor and environmental reporter Chai Jing produced a 104-minute documentary titled, Under the Dome , which immediately went viral in the country - before it was banned. The documentary depicts the devastating effects of smog and pollution from China’s dependence on coal-produced energy. In an effort to provide unrestricted fuel for its burgeoning economy, environmental concerns have been largely ignored...

In March of 2014, FOX premiered Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey , an ambitious documentary series meant to follow in the footsteps of Carl Sagan’s famous 1980 series. The new series was hosted by Neil deGrasse Tyson , the well known astrophysicist and director of the Hayden Planetarium . Just as many scientists today cite Carl Sagan’s series as an inspiration, so Dr. Tyson hopes to reach out to a new generation...