Scientists have been making impressive strides in utilizing AI for nuclear energy. Companies test first-of-its-kind project ...

Kansai Electric Power will begin surveys for the construction of a new nuclear power reactor at its Mihama power station in ...

Japan considers building its first nuclear reactor since 2011 Fukushima disaster to meet surging AI-driven energy demand.

Georgia Power and its partners made history by bringing a new nuclear reactor online at Plant Vogtle, the first commercial unit built from scratch in the U.S. By Drew Kann Updated July 31, 2023 ...

The next generation of nuclear power plants could be tiny, and that could mean big things for carbon-free electricity. Several companies including NuScale Power and Bill Gates’ TerraPower are ...

A revival in nuclear power—partly fed by ravenous demand from data centers for artificial intelligence—is leading to greater interest in harnessing AI to make those nuclear plants more ...

The reactors were Iran’s first venture into nuclear power. In all, Iraqi warplanes flew seven bombing runs. One reactor was eventually rebuilt by Russia, switched on and guarded by antiaircraft ...

Basically, this is a cool trick where they can use the reactor at very low power to keep the lights on at the plant and keep water moving through its core and all the other cores as well. INSKEEP: OK.

The Indian Point nuclear power plant, on the banks of the Hudson River about 30 miles north of New York City, first opened in 1962 and was greatly expanded in the 1970s. For many years it was a ...

The only two nuclear reactors built in the U.S. in decades came online at Georgia Power’s Vogtle plant in 2023 and 2024, respectively, and cost $31 billion, according to the Associated Press ...

The dream of reviving nuclear power in the U.S. rests on a new generation of smaller reactors meant to be easier to build. But major obstacles loom. By Brad Plumer and Ivan Penn Nov. 12, 2023 ...

The same is now true for nuclear power in general in the US. No large reactors are planned, and the last few projects of that sort were either canceled or ran horrifically over budget.