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Could just one bomb destroy our planet in future? A scientist explains.

Plasma engineers and chemists at the University of Illinois have demonstrated a sustainable way of forming carbon-carbon bonds—the bedrock of all organic compounds—without expensive, rare metals that are typically required as catalysts in bond-forming organic reactions.

These officials will play critical roles in determining the direction of clean energy deployment, oil and gas leasing and interstate transmission in 2023.

They’re going to WHUT?! Now THIS is thinking outside the box! Today I learned that the University of Illinois is planning to build a microreactor to deliver electricity & *district heating*...

Purdue University and Duke Energy will host the next installment of the Understanding Tomorrow’s Nuclear Energy Lecture Series in January. Kathryn D. Huff, assistant secretary for nuclear energy in the Department of Energy’s Office of Nuclear Energy, will present “Nuclear Power in 2050” from 3:30-4:30 p.m. ET on Jan. 18 in Stewart Center’s Fowler Hall and via livestream. Registration is required for both in-person and virtual attendance.

IDAHO FALLS – Seth Kanter never suspected that his love of the ocean, and more than eight years in the Navy, would eventually lead him to a career in the high desert of eastern Idaho. But as the Radiological Engineering manager at Idaho National Laboratory, Kanter feels very much at home, and fortunate. Kanter supports […]

U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Granholm issued the following statement on President Biden’s intent to nominate Dr. Kathryn Huff for Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE): "I am thrilled that President Biden has nominated Dr. Kathryn Huff to serve as Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy at DOE. Dr. Huff…

WASHINGTON – Today, President Joe Biden announced his intent to nominate the following leaders to serve as key leaders in his administration: 

Only an unusually naive child, or a fossil fuel executive, could sincerely argue that our current energy situation is sustainable. For over 50 years

29 June 2021 Share The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) has informed the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) that it intends to construct an Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation (USNC) Micro Modular Reactor on its campus. The university said the submission of the Letter of Intent is the first step in the NRCs two-step process to license the new research and test reactor facility. The Micro Modular Reactor design (Image: USNC) UIUCs Grainger College of Engineering (and its Departme...