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Westinghouse filed for Chapter 11 because of business problems at its nuclearpower plants in Georgia and South Carolina. But the real cause has nothing to do with nuclear power and everything to do with Toshiba’s choice of the wrong construction contractor ...read more

The Republic of South Africa plans to decrease coal in their future electricity generation, primarily by increasing the low-carbon energy sources of nuclear and renewables, implementing a carbon tax and putting carbon capture on coal plants. ...read more

X-energy’s Xe-100 high temperature gas-cooled pebble bed modular nuclear power plant has higher efficiencies, a reduced water requirement, a small physical footprint, a small emergency planning zone, doesn't need to shut down to refuel, and is walk ...read more

Vancouver-based Electra Meccanica Vehicles Corporation has developed an all-electric, single passenger vehicle - the SOLO. Released in late 2016, the SOLO may revolutionize how people commute in the urban world since it gets the equivalent of about 150 ...read more

A new fast-charging battery technology from Jack Goodenough, the inventor of the Li battery, will again revolutionize electric vehicles and smart phones, using a glass electrode instead of a liquid one, sodium instead of lithium, having three times as ...read more

NuScale Power is on track to build the first small modular nuclear reactor in America, having been notified that their first-ever SMR Design Certification Application was accepted for full review by the NRC after only two months - light speed for our ...read more

DOE has aPlan for a Defense Nuclear Waste Repositorythat would only be for nuclear waste generated from nuclear weapons, including high-level waste (HLW) and transuranic waste (TRU). It’s a good plan but requires Americans to believe in science again ...read more

The White House is moving to gut environmental regulations like the Clean Water and Clean Air Acts. The latter is the single piece of legislation that has saved the most lives in history. Undercutting it will cost real lives and won’t help coal at all ...read more

Oil is more plentiful than you can imagine. For every barrel of oil consumed over the past 35 years, two new barrels have been discovered. And this shows no sign of slowing down any time soon as new technologies like fracking continue to develop. Peak ...read more

The discovery of seven metal-rich Earth-like planets orbiting a near-by star has really gotten everyone thinking about space colonization again. Four of these planets are in the Goldilocks Zone – a sweet spot where liquid water is stable and life could ...read more

A new report from an anti-nuclear group gives some alternative spin to the same old dogma – shut down all nuclear plants and replace them with renewables. Unfortunately, its conclusions are wrong, especially about the cost savings and climate effects ...read more

SMR Start is a new organization of customers and vendors investing in advanced modular reactors (SMRs), formed to get SMRs over the initial market humps plaguing all new technologies, using proven public-private partnerships. SMRs offer an economic, flexible ...read more

The latest push by the DPRK (previously North Korea) to develop a ballistic missile capable of reaching California with an atomic warhead on it, has caused some real consternation. In America and in the world. But should we worry about radioactive fallout ...read more

Most of our high-level nuclear waste is no longer high-level, which changes the way we should dispose of it. Unfortunately, nobody in Congress knows this. Since 1970, most of the HLW has changed to transuranic, SNF needs to be kept for future reactors ...read more

Two bills in Congress, theAdvanced Nuclear Technology Act and the Interim Consolidated Storage Act, have the ability to kickstart new nuclear power in this country by easing the onerous licensing process for new reactors and finding a place for the spent ...read more

The exact moment that Donald Trump took office on Friday, the official White House Website was purged of all references to global warming and climate change science. Other sites have followed. This is troubling to us scientists as well as to our military ...read more

Former Texas Governor Rick Perry, Trump's choice to become the next Energy Secretary, apologized for his previous recommendation to do away with the Department of Energy and instead vows to protect the science and scientists at the Department. ...read more

NuScale Power is on track to build the first small modular nuclear reactor in America, submitting the first design certification application for any SMR to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and providing something we’ve all been waiting for – a reactor ...read more

Yesterday in a ribbon cutting ceremony, Energy Secretary Moniz and New Mexico Governor Martinez formally re-opened the world’s only operating deep geologic nuclear waste repository, the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), located near Carlsbad, New Mexico ...read more

Columbia Generating Station, a nuclear power plant near Richland, WA, generated a record 9.6 billion kWhrs of electricity in 2016, continuing a trend of better and better performance. CGS has generated electricity constantly for thirty-two years, but ...read more

Nuclear energy and nuclear weapons had quite a year in 2016. Our new President-elect made nuclear more front and center than it has been in decades, coming out in favor of nuclear power but discussing nuclear weapons in an open, if frightening, way. ...read more

A particular volcanic rock is best for sequestering huge amounts of CO2 deep in the Earth in a way that is stable for geologic time. It reacts with injected CO2 to precipitate new limestone-like rock. The real trick is that this method reduces the normal ...read more

Rick Perry is Trump's choice to become Secretary for the Department of Energy, strange since Perry wanted to kill DOE completely. Everyone is fixated on shifting DOE away from renewables and toward fossil fuels, but DOE neve had much to do with energy ...read more

The latest greatest utility-scale battery storage technology to emerge on the commercial market is the vanadium flow battery - fully containerized, nonflammable, reusable over semi-infinite cycles, discharges 100% of the stored energy, and does not degrade ...read more

Researchers at the Univ of Bristol have developed a way to use nuclear waste to generate electricity in a nuclear-powered battery that is also a diamond. It produces low power, has no moving parts, no emissions, needs no maintenance, no need to be recharged ...read more