Nuclear energy

The U.S. leads the world in fusion energy research. It can’t squander that lead like it did with microchips

Data centers accounted for about 1.5 percent of global electricity consumption in 2024, an amount expected to double by 2030 because of AI use

Researchers have found an environmentally safer way to extract the lithium 6 needed to create fuel for nuclear fusion reactors. The new approach doesn’t require toxic mercury, as conventional methods do

A Trump administration plan would end the independence of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, where similar oversight muzzling has led to nuclear disasters overseas

Reviving nuclear power plants to power AI threatens an avalanche of nuclear waste

Unless we pursue AI carefully, the Nobel committee will one day give a Peace Prize to the people cleaning up its terrible consequences, just as it did with nuclear physics

Years after a nuclear disaster wiped out Fukushima’s agriculture, peach growers are banking on Harrods to sell the area’s recovery story

As Microsoft strikes a deal to restart a reactor at Three Mile Island to power AI, nuclear specialists weigh in on the unprecedented process

Solar and natural gas surged last year in the U.S., while wind stumbled

The Biden administration’s intention to use dozens of bombs’ worth of highly enriched uranium as fuel in a new civilian reactor sets a dangerous precedent, one that could help our foes get nuclear weapons

Congress must end the exemption of nuclear waste from environmental law if we ever hope to end a 60-year logjam on how to safely store it

Radiation in water from Fukushima will be diluted to almost background levels, but some researchers are not sure this will be sufficient to mitigate the risks