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Warren Buffett warned AI is like the atomic bomb, but this expert thinks he's being way too gloomy

Sat, 05/18/2024 - 07:04

Warren Buffet — Warren Buffett.
Bill Pugliano / Stringer / Getty Images

finance, Tech, trending-uk, finance, Tech, warren-buffett, berkshire-hathaway

A Bill Gates company is about to start building a nuclear power plant in Wyoming

Tue, 03/19/2024 - 09:05

TerraPower — A rendering of TerraPower's nuclear power plant design.
TerraPower

energy, Science, energy, Science, bill-gates, Tech, nuclear-power

US scientists have launched a new nuclear era they call the 'age of ignition' but it's still a distant dream from the age of nuclear power

Thu, 12/21/2023 - 17:59

Two people in white coverall suits look at the machinery at the National Ignition Facility Target Area. — Operators inspect the National Ignition Facility target chamber where the fusion ignition experiments take place.
Jason Laurea/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Science, national-ignition-facility, Fusion, fusion-power-plant, nuclear-power, lawrence-livermore-national-labs

The US wants to build a different kind of nuclear reactor from a decades-old concept that could power ships and other off-the-grid locations

Tue, 12/19/2023 - 17:25

A circular window with molten salt pouring onto a surface — Molten salts are used as coolants in the Papirus installation at CEA Cadarache in Saint-Paul-les-Durance, France.
Nicolas Tucat/AFP via Getty Images

Science, nuclear-reactor, nuclear-power, molten-salt-reactor, kairos-power

2 nuclear reactors that can power 1 million US homes with clean, sustainable energy is $21 billion over budget and years behind schedule

Tue, 12/19/2023 - 13:59

two cooling towers for a nuclear reactor appear above their power plants with many transmission lines running from them — Units 3, left, and 4 and their cooling towers stand at Georgia Power Co.'s Plant Vogtle nuclear power plant in Waynesboro, Georgia.
AP Photo/John Bazemore

Science, energy, nuclear-power, nuclear-energy, nuclear-reactor, Georgia, clean-energy

Uranium prices top $80 for the first time in 15 years as demand for nuclear power surges

Tue, 11/21/2023 - 14:39

Uranium — Uranium
Getty Images

Markets, mi-exclusive, uranium-prices, nuclear-power, nuclear-energy, Mining, clean-energy

Hedge funds are pouring money into uranium stocks as they bet on a nuclear-powered future

Mon, 10/30/2023 - 15:31

Nuclear power plant — Nuclear power plant
Getty Images

Markets, mi-exclusive, nuclear-power, Uranium, uranium-prices, climate-change, Decarbonization

Why we don't have fusion power plants yet, and what it'll take to get clean, limitless energy to market

Sun, 10/29/2023 - 08:19

The National Spherical Torus Experiment-Upgrade (NSTX-U), a large circular device surrounded by a platform and steps leading to it — The National Spherical Torus Experiment-Upgrade (NSTX-U) at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory.
Elle Starkman, PPPL

Science, Fusion, plasma, tritium, nuclear-fusion-reactor, nuclear-fusion-power, nuclear-power

The US is planning its first fusion plant, and it could generate pollution-free power by 2035

Mon, 09/25/2023 - 18:04

nuclear fusion — A type of fusion test reactor for scientific research at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory.
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

Science, Tech Insider, News, associated-press, nuclear-fusion, nuclear-power, nuclear-energy

Uranium is the new gold as the world goes nuclear once again

Mon, 09/25/2023 - 11:47

Uranium — Uranium oxide power in a filter press.
Photo by Paolo KOCH/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)

Markets, mi-exclusive, Markets, Uranium, uranium-prices, Nuclear, nuclear-power

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