U.S. energy group Westinghouse proposed using decommissioned nuclear sites in Italy for the installation of small modular ...

As of May 2023, 32 countries have a total of 436 working nuclear reactors, generating about 10% of the world’s demand for electricity. Note that these numbers reflect the number of reactors ...

Armed with measuring devices, groups of citizens are embracing science to monitor radioactive fallout — and regain control of ...

Mammoth AI data centers housing acres of HPC-class racks are breaking ground around the world. Clean power sources in greater quantities is an imperative, and the power vacuum could be addressed by ...

Japan's nuclear plants faced global scrutiny after the devastating 2011 tsunami triggered by a 9.0 magnitude earthquake.

Fossil fuel-dependent Indonesia plans to build nuclear power plants with the capacity of about 4 gigawatts (GW) in a bid for ...

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, in her budget speech, has announced a ₹20,000-crore Nuclear Energy Mission for R&D into small reactors and ... India has the world’s largest reserves ...

The IEA report says that 63 nuclear reactors are currently under construction across the world, representing 70 GW of capacity. Much of this expansion is based on Russian and Chinese technology ...

An agreement has been concluded to renew the Generation IV International Forum, which aims to build on its first 25 years of sharing research and development on innovative nuclear reactor designs ...

To zoom in on some of these trends, let’s take a look at the US, which has the largest fleet of nuclear reactors in the world (and the oldest, with an average age of over 42 years). In recent ...

The planned construction of the next generation of nuclear reactors in France, which expects to have at least six of these, faces numerous challenges including in financing, supply chains ...