Fuel economy is one of the most important factors to consider when buying a new car because it has an impact on your weekly operating costs. In fact, Americans are more likely to name fuel economy ...

It is the world's only floating nuclear power plant and at the same time the world's northernmost heat and electricity producing unit. With reactor technology similar to Russia's icebreakers, the fuel ...

Ryan Chan is a Newsweek reporter based in Hong Kong, where he previously had over a decade of experience at a local newspaper, covering China and current events around the world. His focus is on ...

Reopening old nuclear plants can only go so far. This article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review’s weekly climate newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Wednesday, sign up here.

FORSMARK, Sweden, Jan 15 (Reuters) - Sweden started building a final storage facility for spent nuclear fuel on Wednesday, only the second such site in the world, where highly radioactive waste ...

This latest permit modification request to test engineered fuel pellets from Convergen Energy is one step in this process.” Plastic is a global problem with few easy solutions. Worldwide ...

After all, large nuclear power plants have made a habit, at least in the west, of blowing their initial budgets and running years late. Take Sizewell C, a planned 3.2 gigawatt plant in eastern ...

An innovative effort to redefine nuclear waste management in the European Union has been launched. The “MaLaR – Novel 2D-3D Materials for Lanthanide Recovery from Nuclear Waste” project will ...

Highly radioactive waste is piling up at nuclear power plants around the United States. And the nation has been trying, and failing, since the early 1980s to find a safer place to store this fuel once ...

Uranium fuel used in nuclear power plants is enriched with special centrifuges in a process that takes three to five years. Russian companies hold a roughly 40% global market share, leading in the ...