Rising electricity demand has researchers exploring a wide range of methods to generate more power, including a type of nuclear reactor that’s smaller than traditional nuclear plants.
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Rising electricity demand, especially to power data centers, could make restoring some nuclear plants that closed early financially viable.
The Coalition’s nuclear policy announcement leaves many burning questions. Exactly what kind of reactors will be built? Who will build them? And how much they will cost?
Russia isn’t a major producer of uranium, but it handles a large share of the steps that turn it into nuclear fuel. That makes it a major player in this globalized industry.
The fire at Europe’s largest nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine understandably raised the spectre of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster. But thankfully this time another nuclear catastrophe was avoided.
The UK government sees a reliable and low-carbon solution to future energy crises in nuclear power.
Nearly 60 years after a radiation-leaking reactor was removed from a US Army base on the Greenland ice sheet, the military is exploring portable nuclear reactors again.
The rush to evacuate communities and abandon nuclear energy was understandable, but an error.
Don’t count nuclear energy out – it may be our best hope of reaching net-zero emissions within the time we have left.
Nuclear power isn’t needed to meet Ontario’s electricity needs. And the absence of nuclear power won’t have any impact on emissions in Ontario’s energy sector.
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Professor of Energy, The Open University
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Ser Cymru Professor of Materials in Extreme Environments, Bangor University
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Senior Lecturer in Nuclear Energy, Bangor University
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Professor of Risk Management, University of Bristol
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PhD Candidate in Space Resources, Colorado School of Mines
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Professor of Natural Resources and Environmental Science, University of Vermont
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Professor of Public Policy and Director of the Payne Institute, Colorado School of Mines
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Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland
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MITACS Globalink Research Intern, University of British Columbia
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Honorary Associate Professor, Nuclear Reactors and Nuclear Fuel Cycle, Australian National University
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Simons Chair in Disarmament, Global and Human Security at the Liu Institute for Global Issues, University of British Columbia
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Associate Professor of Construction Management; Director of Research, Applied Research Center, Florida International University
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Professor of Nuclear Engineering & Radiological Sciences, University of Michigan