Western states working to replace coal power with nuclear energy
As the U.S. seeks a green energy future, what happens to coal fired power plants, how will we get our electricity and what will take coal’s place?
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As the U.S. seeks a green energy future, what happens to coal fired power plants, how will we get our electricity and what will take coal’s place?
Expectations are high for new nuclear reactors, but critics question whether nuclear power, historically slow and expensive to build, will be left behind by the rapid deployment of cheaper renewables.
It’s not uncommon for nuclear power plants to be sited relatively close to large metropolitan areas (within 50 miles, for example), after all, that is
The troublesome and so far unsolved problem of nuclear waste storage may derail promising "new" nuclear technologies.
ATOMIC CITY – The COVID-19 pandemic didn’t stop a group of Scouts in Richmond, Kentucky, from getting their nuclear science merit badges. Ted Simmons, nuclear science merit badge counselor, grew up in Idaho Falls, home of the Idaho National Laboratory and Experimental Breeder Reactor-I, the nation’s first electricity-generating nuclear reactor. “I had been to EBR-I […]