Some countries have given a high priority to extend the designed lifetime of their reactors from 40 years to 60 or 80 years. The safety considerations of a nuclear power plant are paramount. Those ...

This huge round structure, called ‘the dome’, is only one piece in China's Fuqing Nuclear Power Plant, which is currently under construction. (Photo: M. Klingenboeck/IAEA) It has 38 nuclear power ...

Last Energy, a start-up focused on micro-modular nuclear power plant development, announced Friday that it plans to build 30 microreactors on a 200-acre plot in greater Haskell County. The main ...

But will the future of nuclear power be dominated by emerging technologies like modular reactors, new mega-projects like Plant Vogtle, or the revitalization of old and decommissioned nuclear fleets?

Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS), a spinoff branch of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has announced plans to build the world's first nuclear fusion power plant. If successful ...

Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, occupied by Russian forces since the early days of the war, could be restored and protected by US ownership – at least according to the Americans.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that talks with President Trump about “ownership” of Ukrainian nuclear power plants focused only on the Zaporizhzhia plant, which is currently under ...

The mayor of Williams Lake, B.C., says he's relieved that the provincial government and province's power provider have stepped in to stop a local power plant from shutting down. The privately-held ...

The Court of Appeal has heard there is a "tension" in the government's decision to approve a new "net zero" gas power station. Environmental consultant Andrew Boswell lost a High Court case in ...

PT Thorcon Power Indonesia has submitted documents to Indonesia's nuclear regulator, initiating the licensing process for the construction of a power plant based on its advanced molten salt reactor ...

18TH AND 19TH. A NEW DUKE ENERGY NUCLEAR POWER PLANT IS COMING TO STOKES COUNTY. IT WILL GENERATE POWER TO THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE ACROSS THE CAROLINAS AND PARTS OF VIRGINIA. WXII 12 ADRIANNA HARGROVE ...