Nuclear Power
Small modular reactors could deliver carbon-free energy to a warming world -- unless they're actually a distraction from better approaches.
Biden wants to keep Jeff Baran on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, but the GOP and pro-nuclear activists say he's holding back an atomic renaissance.
The Oscar-winning director calls out Jane Fonda and Ralph Nader for opposing atomic power, urges peace with Russia and cheers on RFK Jr.’s presidential run.
Europe’s largest economy is the biggest yet to quit atomic energy, choosing coal over fission in a struggle with high stakes for climate change and geopolitics.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
Atomic power netted nearly $7 billion from recent legislation, but experts say far more is needed to compete with Russia and bolster a costly but vital alternative to fossil fuels.
The self-governing island faced major outages the last time reactors went offline.
After 14 years and billions of dollars in cost overruns, the first of only two reactors under construction in the U.S. began the long-awaited process of starting up.
It comes as the U.S. has warned Russia could drag the war out for years, without the strength to launch a major offensive.
There's enough energy in spent uranium fuel to power the U.S. for over a century, but recycling waste was a challenge even in America's atomic glory days.
An exclusive Q&A with Ma Ying-jeou, the controversial former president from the opposition party to the current government.