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While SMRs present a clean future, some worry the timeline for development and research could be too long, among other concerns.

Sweden’s renewed commitment to nuclear power highlights growing global interest in this clean source of energy to address the twin challenges of tackling climate change and meeting increased electricity demand, IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi said during this week’s official visit to the Nordic nation, where he also joined forces with a major radiotherapy company

Gov. JB Pritzker has taken some heat for vetoing legislation to eliminate the state’s decades-old moratorium on constructing new nuclear power reactors. Pritzker was asked...

He has taken some heat for vetoing legislation to eliminate the state’s decades-old moratorium on new nuclear power reactors.

It is now clear that renewables help to alleviate load shedding by at least two stages. Another 10GW of renewables could bring rolling blackouts to an end.

What started as an impending energy crisis more than a decade ago has morphed into what can only be described as akin to an irrevocable catastrophe, says Prof Bismark Tyobeka, principal and vice-chancellor of the North-West University.

New York, N.Y., Aug. 17, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- LIS Technologies Inc. (“LIST” or “the Company”), a USA based, proprietary developer of a patented...

A column by Bruce Uzelman

The veto of a law to end a moratorium on new nuclear power plant construction in Illinois sets up a battle in the fall veto session. In his veto message, Gov. JB Pritzker appears to be saying the bill isn't ready for prime time.

We now have ‘an echo chamber, with each outlet clambering over the next to crow about the great benefits of nuclear power in misleading language that suggests this technology is already entirely proven out’.  It all fits into what see she see as an emerging pro-SMR mind set, with there being a lot of speculative…