Findings suggest new policy models and cost-cutting technologies could help nuclear play vital role in climate solutions How can the world achieve the deep carbon emissions reductions that a... Read more
An ultra-high-resolution technique used for the first time to study polymer fibers that trap uranium in seawater may cause researchers to rethink the best methods to harvest this potential f... Read more
THIS past summer, the Group of 7 nations promised “urgent and concrete action” to limit climate change. What actions exactly? Activists hope for answers from the coming United Nations climat... Read more
PhD Lorenzo Martínez Gómez argued that it is a real alternative to mitigate climate change damage from fossil fuel combustion in Mexico. The energy sector has been one of the strategic areas... Read more
Leading conservation scientists from around the world have called for a substantial role for nuclear power in future energy-generating scenarios in order to mitigate climate change and prote... Read more
Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have devised a new method for enriching a group of the world’s most expensive chemical commodities, stable isotopes, which are vital to medic... Read more
Thorium reactors: Asgard’s fire WELL begun; half done. That proverb—or, rather, its obverse—encapsulates the problems which have dogged civil nuclear power since its inception. Atomic energy... Read more
This is not a miracle solution, but it could make a big contribution The history of renewable energy is strewn with miraculous technologies that seemed to promise limitless, cheap, low-carbo... Read more
New research has provided a comprehensive overview of new small-scale nuclear reactors, which could be suitable candidates to cope with the world’s ever growing demand for energy. A detailed... Read more
It has now demonstrated a 5 kW fiber laser projector, configured rather like a rifle, that can be wielded by a single person. To address the challenges encountered in decommissioning a nucle... Read more
Since we face outsized problems from burning fossil fuels, an atomic-sized solution, with few emissions and well understood risks, can seem attractive A believer in solar power rarely has a... Read more
Over the last two days I had a pleasant exchange with a 7th grader from California who wanted to know more about nuclear energy for a school project. He asked me about a dozen questions on n... Read more
This is part one of a two-part series on the limits of human economic growth on planet Earth. Part one details some of the environmental and natural resource challenges we’re up against. Par... Read more
Thorium is being touted as an ideal fuel for a new generation of nuclear power plants, but in a piece in this week’s Nature, researchers suggest it may not be as benign as portrayed. The ele... Read more
The researchers’ goal is to eliminate 99 percent of the most toxic transuranic waste from nuclear fission reactors. University of Texas at Austin physicists have been awarded a U.S. patent f... Read more
