nuclear power

President offered making Ukraine’s nuclear power American-owned to ensure “best protection” of the nation’s power infrastructure in future.

Amazon, Google, and Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta have joined a growing list of energy-intensive companies calling for governments and utilities to triple nuclear power capacity by 2050, signaling a significant boost for the nuclear industry’s revival.

“If two (nuclear switchyards) are hit, we are out of supply for a minimum of 30 to 36 hours” said a Ukrainian energy industry expert.

The rapid growth of AI and cloud computing is leading to a surge in the power consumption of data centers, with individual campuses potentially using far more electricity than some U.S. cities and states.

Ukraine has resources and expertise to make nuclear weapons if it was forced, a briefing meant for top government figures allegedly says.

The California-based Middlebury Institute of International Studies published research this week that showed China has constructed a prototype nuclear reactor that could fit aboard a large surface vessel – a sign that China is making progress toward building a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier.

Constellation Energy is pursuing a $1.6 billion federal loan guarantee to help finance its plan to restart the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania and sell the electricity exclusively to Microsoft to power the tech giant’s AI data centers.

The U.S. agreed to help Kenya and El Salvador develop peaceful nuclear power at the annual International Atomic Energy Agency conference.

A bombshell report has found that Germany could have been more effective at reducing its carbon footprint while saving hundreds of billions of euros if it had invested in nuclear power rather than green energy projects.

The State Department announced on Tuesday that a landmark nuclear cooperation agreement has gone into effect, allowing the U.S. to export peaceful nuclear technology to the Philippines.

Russian natural gas imports to the EU have overtaken those from the U.S. for the first time since sanctions over the Ukraine war took hold.

Political leaders in Saudi Arabia are pressing the administration of leftist President Joe Biden to help the country develop a nuclear program as part of a larger “security” deal that may ultimately include a pathway to normalizing ties with Israel, Reuters reported on Monday.

Green party minister may have been deceived by own people to make sure closures went ahead, magazine that sued for internal documents claims.

The head of the U.N.´s atomic watchdog condemned a drone strike on one of six nuclear reactors at the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia Plant.

Reuters reported on Tuesday that major Indian firms are interested in building at least ten gigawatts of coal-fired power generation over the next decade, expanding some existing plants and reviving projects that stalled out when coal power fell into environmentalist disfavor.

The Russian space agency Roscosmos announced on Tuesday that it is “seriously considering” building a nuclear power plant on the moon in collaboration with the communist government of China.

Police in Mersin, Turkey, confirmed on Tuesday that they had arrested an unnamed man working at the construction site of the Russian-built Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant in connection with an investigation into the Islamic State.

Iranian Atomic Energy Organization (AEOI) Vice President Mohammad Eslami announced on Monday that construction has begun on a fourth nuclear reactor in the city of Isfahan.

Ukraine can decentralise its power supply network by building a series of “mini nuclear power plants”, Rolls Royce believes.

“Now is not the time to shut down power plants. Until it is clear that energy is available and affordable” said the minister.

Russia accused Ukraine on Saturday of damaging a nuclear waste storage facility in a drone strike on the Kursk nuclear power plant

Burkina Faso’s junta-led government signed a deal with Russia on Friday for the construction of a nuclear power plant.

Vladimir Putin accused the UK of trying to provoke Moscow, claiming that Britain was behind an attack on a Russian atomic facility.

The U.N. atomic watchdog warned of a potential threat to nuclear safety due to a spike in fighting near Europe’s largest nuclear power plant.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz rejected reopening nuclear power plants, declaring that atomic energy is a “dead horse” in Germany.

Breitbart News asked Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) on Saturday just “how close” the United States is to tipping off a world war “if we keep going down this path.” Greene, in an interview during the Turning Point Action conference in West Palm Beach, Florida, said she “think[s] that’s a question that a lot of Americans have.”

During a state visit to Rwanda on Sunday, Hungarian President Katalin Novak signed an agreement allowing Rwandan nuclear energy technicians to receive training from Hungarian universities.

China’s state-run Global Times on Tuesday accused the United States of plotting a “dirty energy gold rush” in Ukraine.

The International Energy Agency (IEA) on Thursday produced a report that found “clean energy” investments have skyrocketed during Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, driven by anxiety over volatile fossil fuel prices and the cutoff of oil and gas supplies from Russia.

The United Nations’ nuclear watchdog expressed growing anxiety about the safety of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant amid ongoing fighting.

Far-left Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said this week his government is “very serious” about reviving nuclear power, specifically because it might cripple Canada’s oil and natural gas industry.

Ukraine marked the 37th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, widely considered the worst event of its kind in human history, on Wednesday, condemning Russia’s ongoing invasion of the country and accusing it of using nuclear threats to “blackmail” the world.

Support for Germany’s ruling green party has reportedly collapsed amid ongoing nuclear and home heating scandals plaguing the country.

The U.S., UK, Canada, Japan, and France announced a nuclear power alliance “aimed at displacing Putin” from the international energy market.

Finland’s much-delayed and costly new nuclear reactor, Europe’s most powerful by production capacity, began energy production on Sunday.