Opinion

Trump has undermined the agency tasked with making sure America never has another nuclear meltdown

The federal regulatory agency tasked with keeping America’s nuclear power plants safe and running smoothly is set to make huge cuts to the amount of time its staffers spend on safety and emergency ...
The New York Times

Give Nuclear Power Another Chance

Ms. Tuhus-Dubrow is the author of “Atomic Dreams: The New Nuclear Evangelists and the Fight for the Future of Energy.” She wrote from Irvine, Calif. At the annual United Nations climate conference in ...
Scientific American

A Bill Gates–backed nuclear power plant just got cleared to start building

TerraPower, a start-up founded by Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates, is set to build a new kind of nuclear power plant in Wyoming ...
The New York Times

Britain Gives Go-Ahead to Smaller Nuclear Reactor in Wales

The government pledged 2.5 billion pounds for initial site work, but the decision to build a small, modular design may disappoint others, including the U.S. nuclear industry. By Stanley Reed Stanley ...
MIT Technology Review

Three questions about next-generation nuclear power, answered

What new nuclear technologies mean for safety, costs, and more. Nuclear power continues to be one of the hottest topics in energy today, and in our recent online Roundtables discussion about ...