Have you ever wondered why Mr. Burns doesn’t fire Homer from his job at the Nuclear Power Plant? Probably not. It doesn’t ...

Age of oldest reactor on site based on date operating license issued.

‘The world sees – can't but see – that the only source of danger to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant is Russia and no one else,’ Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said. A new ...

But building a new nuclear power plant from scratch, especially a new design, is an arduous, expensive process that can span decades. At the same time, old, carbon dioxide- and soot-spewing coal ...

The Biden administration on Tuesday released a roadmap for plans to triple U.S. nuclear capacity by the middle of the century ...

German companies EON SE and RWE AG dismissed calls to restart their decommissioned nuclear power plants, as the energy source ...

Decommissioning is the last stage in the life cycle of a nuclear power plant. Planning for decommissioning begins at the design stage of the plant, to ensure that dismantling and associated waste ...

Not everyone is enthused about the prospect of a nuclear comeback. The power plants produce waste that can remain radioactive for thousands of years. About a tennis court-size amount of spent ...

Nuclear energy has been on shaky ground across the United States for the last decade, but recent federal and state policies have come to its rescue. Nuclear power plants have been reliable ...

Nuclear power has seen a revival throughout 2024, thanks in large part to soaring energy demand from the tech sector. At least two retired plants are set to come back online, one nuclear facility ...

Nuclear-power stocks fell after regulators voted against a deal between Amazon and Talen Energy. The deal would permit a ...

All of them face unresolved questions around nuclear waste. But the low-carbon electricity provided by existing nuclear power plants is increasingly valuable in the fight against climate change.