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How would you like to visit your local nuclear power facility and maybe go for a swim in its indoor pool? Or hang out and look at art … Maybe even just sit with friends and enjoy a cup of coffee in the warm glow of nuclear power?Continue ReadingCateg… Continue reading It’s not a tiny home. It’s actually a nuclear microreactor powerplant
In what it calls “the world’s first corporate agreement to purchase nuclear energy from multiple small modular reactors,” Google has taken another step toward its goal of achieving net-zero emissions from its operational chain by 2030.Continue ReadingC… Continue reading Google goes nuclear in world-first small reactor agreement
The UK’s Sellafield nuclear waste processing and storage site has been fined £332,500 by regulators after its IT systems were found to have been left vulnerable to hackers and unauthorised access for years.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Sec… Continue reading Sellafield nuclear site hit with £332,500 fine after “significant cybersecurity shortfalls”
Westinghouse Electric Company is advancing its revolutionary eVinci nuclear microreactor. Based on space nuclear technology, it boasts a tiny footprint, no moving parts, and can be swapped out for refueling, much like replacing a used gas bottle.Contin… Continue reading eVinci nuclear microreactor moves towards commercialization
In a remarkable topical twofer, not only is Microsoft turning to nuclear power to run its data centers, it’s commissioned the restarting of the infamous Three Mile Island station – the site of the worst commercial nuclear accident in US history.Continu… Continue reading Three Mile Island to be restarted to power Microsoft data centers
When you picture a sci-fi energy source, glowing green crystals are right up there. Scientists in China have now demonstrated just that, in the form of a “micronuclear battery” that can provide continuous low levels of power for decades.Continue Readin… Continue reading Glowing crystal-powered nuclear battery boasts 8,000x efficiency boost
Atomic clocks are the most accurate timekeepers we have, losing only seconds across billions of years. But apparently that’s not accurate enough – nuclear clocks could steal their thunder, speeding up GPS and the internet, among other things. Now, scie… Continue reading World-first nuclear clock prototype could outperform atomic clocks
Startup Deep Fission has come up with a new way to deal with the economic and safety problems of nuclear power that is, to say the least, novel. The idea is to build a reactor that’s under 30 inches (76 cm) wide and stick it down a mile-deep (1.6-km) d… Continue reading Nuclear reactors a mile underground promise safe, cheap power
Lloyd’s Register and nuclear startup Core Power are joining forces with shipping company Maersk to study how to update regulations as part of an effort to introduce Gen IV nuclear reactors to power the next generation of zero-carbon-emission cargo ship… Continue reading Gen IV nukes could power next-gen cargo ships
Kairos Power has broken ground at Oak Ridge on the first officially approved Generation IV reactor ever in the US and the first non-light-water reactor in 50 years. It is being constructed alongside a non-nuclear demonstration unit that will help infor… Continue reading First officially approved Gen IV nuclear reactor in the US breaks ground