The United States has ambitious plans for its nuclear power industry. Russia’s stranglehold on the uranium market threatens to delay progress in nextgen nuclear power projects. U.S. companies are scrambling to develop the domestic uranium […]
WASHINGTON/LONDON, Oct 20 (Reuters) – U.S. firms developing a new generation of small nuclear power plants to help cut carbon emissions have a big problem: only one company sells the fuel they need, and it’s […]
After coalition wrangling over nuclear power, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has decided that all three plants should run throughout the winter. Germany has been scrambling to reorganize its energy mix amid gas cuts. Chancellor Olaf […]
ENB Pub Note: While this is an interesting article on why nuclear should be abandoned, there are some serious omissions. In France, the reactor fleet is at only half capacity due to budget constraints and […]
Nuclear continues to be on an upswing globally. Most recently we learned that Japan is now considering extending its 60 year limit on the operation of plants and is even considering submitting legislation on the […]
October 14, 2022 Data source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, based on U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission data Daily U.S. nuclear capacity outages averaged 2.5 gigawatts (GW) during the summer of 2022 (June 1 through August 31), […]
Ukraine is successfully pushing ahead in its counteroffensive to liberate Russia-occupied territories. Putin’s mounting defeats have prompted U.S. President Joe Biden to warn that the threat of the Kremlin using nuclear weapons was the highest […]
Today, National Gird ESO published its Winter Outlook for 2022/23, updating its position since the early outlook issued in July, which was widely seen as unrealistic. The position in July was that a capacity margin of 4.0 GW was […]
Deep-rooted problems with France’s nuclear-heavy energy strategy are raising serious questions about its winter preparedness. A long-standing source of national pride, France generates roughly 70% of its electricity from a nuclear fleet of 56 reactors, […]
CRITICAL MASS — Nuclear power is at a tipping point. A wave of reconsiderations by governments and utilities have nuclear advocates hoping it will emerge from the purgatory that it’s been in. “Nuclear should be getting […]
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