Nuclear Fission
Reactor design advances, safety milestones, fuel technology, and construction progress in nuclear fission power.
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The Chemical That Could Finally Fix Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing
Nuclear plants have already cost taxpayers more than $7 billion in waste storage bills the government never solved. A radiation-resistant lab chemical out of Oregon State might finally shrink that number.
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The Tennessee Factory That Might Matter More Than the Reactor It Feeds
The reactor everyone talks about is useless without this: the fuel to run it. Tennessee just started making it at home.
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Inside the Google Nuclear Uprate Deal Cutting Georgia’s Power Bills
What happens when the company driving up electricity demand pays to expand the grid instead? Georgia just found out, and the number is nine figures.
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Four Companies Just Agreed to Stop Building Nuclear Reactors One at a Time
Vogtle cost $30 billion and took a decade to build, once. This new deal bets that building the same reactor forty times is how nuclear finally gets cheap.
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What Happens When a Country Goes 77% Nuclear?
A reactor that broke ground during the Cold War just switched on, four decades behind schedule and setting a world record anyway. Here’s what it could mean for your next electric bill.
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Borehole Nuclear Waste Disposal Just Cleared Its Cost Test
A three-year federal study just answered nuclear’s oldest question: where does the waste actually go, and what does it cost you? The number is smaller than you’d guess.
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The Safety Pellet That Lets a Nuclear Reactor Save Itself
What happens when a reactor can save itself without anyone flipping a switch? A quiet manufacturing milestone this month could shave years and billions off building the next generation of reactors.
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The Xe-100 Reactor Can’t Melt Down, and It Just Cleared the UK’s First Hurdle
A reactor whose fuel is engineered never to melt down just got the regulatory green light in England. Here is what a hometown welding apprentice stands to gain.
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The Tenth-Inch Fix That’s Speeding Up America’s Nuclear Cleanup
What could a fix smaller than a coin possibly change? At Savannah River, it just saved years off one of the country’s most stubborn nuclear cleanup jobs.
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The District Heating Reactor That Just Got Europe’s Money
One 50-megawatt reactor could heat up to 20,000 homes without burning a drop of gas. Europe’s biggest public lender just bet real money on it.