Nuclear power

Challenges face Elon Musk and NASA in sending people to Mars

Challenges face Elon Musk and NASA in sending people to Mars

John Ray

President Donald Trump and Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, want to make living on Mars a reality.  Musk has ...

The U.S. is falling behind China in nuclear fusion, needed to power AI

The U.S. is falling behind China in nuclear fusion, needed to power AI

John Ray

China and the U.S. are in a race to create the first grid-scale nuclear fusion energy. After decades of U.S. ...

How China Dominated Nuclear Energy

How China Dominated Nuclear Energy

Mickey Vernon

This story is the second installment in a two-part series on nuclear power in Asia. Maani-Ana Yikpotey saw the world ...

A Uranium-Mining Boom Is Sweeping Through Texas

A Uranium-Mining Boom Is Sweeping Through Texas

Albert Wagner

Michaelsen thought he had won. But when the TCEQ commissioners took up the question several months later, again they rejected ...

Three Mile Island nuclear turning point as Big Tech influence grows

Three Mile Island nuclear turning point as Big Tech influence grows

Albert Wagner

Cooling towers at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Middletown, Pennsylvania, Oct. 30, 2024. Danielle DeVries | CNBC ...

Biden Tees Up 2 More Major Nuclear Power Wins For Trump

Biden Tees Up 2 More Major Nuclear Power Wins For Trump

Mickey Vernon

President-elect Donald Trump wants to gut the Biden administration’s policies that promote wind turbines and electric vehicles. But nuclear power ...

Amazon, Ken Griffin Invest In Nuclear Power

Amazon, Ken Griffin Invest In Nuclear Power

Mickey Vernon

Nearly a month after Microsoft bet $16 billion on reviving the defunct Three Mile Island nuclear plant to power its ...

America’s coal communities could help the U.S. triple nuclear power

America’s coal communities could help the U.S. triple nuclear power

Albert Wagner

A bulldozer moves coal that will be burned to generate electricity at the American Electric Power coal-fired power plant in ...

Sam Altman’s Oklo plunges 54% in NYSE debut after SPAC

Sam Altman’s Oklo plunges 54% in NYSE debut after SPAC

Lawrence Booth

Sam Altman is now chairman of a public company. But it’s not OpenAI. On Friday, advanced nuclear fission company Oklo ...