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How can we fuel nuclear energy for a cleaner future?

Nuclear energy is obtained by the huge amount of energy that is released by atoms in the processes of fusion or...

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Bill Gates and Warren Buffett to fund nuclear reactor in Wyoming

Bill Gates and Warren Buffett are teaming up to turn an old Wyoming coal plant into a billion-dollar nuclear reactor....

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Supreme Court votes to uphold Virginia's ban on uranium mining

The Supreme Court disappointed the Trump administration and an eager mining corporation by voting to keep the country’s...

Bikini Atoll in the Marshal Islands a site for nuclear dump

Pacific nuclear site contaminating clams and groundwater, despite U.S. denial

Giant clams and groundwater near a U.S. nuclear waste site in the Marshall Islands have been found to have high...

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Trump's nuclear bailout could cost consumers up to $17 billion each year

The Trump Administration is taking unprecedented steps to bail out failing nuclear and coal power plants, effectively...

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In the UK, wind energy provides more power than nuclear for the first time

For the first time, wind energy provided more power than nuclear energy to the United Kingdom grid. In the first...

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MIT claims that clean, limitless nuclear fusion energy is just 15 years away

You've probably heard about the promise of nuclear fusion before... many times. But when MIT is involved, it's...

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The future of energy on islands

Islands are places of exceptional biodiversity and economic value, not to mention their great natural beauty. However,...

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NASA just unveiled a tiny nuclear reactor for future Mars residents

Researchers at NASA, Los Alamos National Laboratory and the Department of Energy announced they have successfully...

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Groundbreaking quark fusion generates 10 times as much energy as nuclear fusion

Physicists at Tel Aviv University and University of Chicago have discovered that quark fusion could be an even...

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Rolls-Royce is developing mini nuclear power plants

A consortium led by Rolls-Royce has crafted design plans for small-scale nuclear power plants. In a report anticipated...

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Offshore wind power is cheaper than new nuclear power in the UK

Offshore wind power has pulled ahead of nuclear power in the United Kingdom. Energy from offshore wind farms will...

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Florida power company scraps nuclear project, will pursue solar power instead

A controversial nuclear project won't be moving forward in Florida. Power company Duke Energy Florida filed a proposed...

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Abandoned nuclear power plant given new life as a solar farm

Solar farms can pop up in unlikely places - like the site of an old, unfinished nuclear power plant in Tennessee....

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Renewable energy generated more power than nuclear for first time since 1984

Nuclear power has dominated alternative energy sources in the United States for decades - that is, until this spring....