A startup wants to mine the moon for helium
A startup company wants to establish mining operations on the moon to extract a rare isotope needed for future quantum ...
Most Contaminated U.S. Nuclear Site Is Set to Be the Largest Solar Farm
Plans to transform Hanford, which was integral to the nation’s nuclear arsenal after World War II, had just begun inching ...
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Breakthrough Solar Reactor Converts CO2 into Fuel, Changing the Game for Clean Energy
The study, which was published in Nature Energy in February 2025, details the groundbreaking work.The reactor operates by harnessing solar energy to drive a chemical reaction. At night, the system ...
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100 kW plasma reactor powers Swedish startup to produce high-purity silicon output
Green14's pilot reactor at KTH Royal Institute of Technology hits 5 kg/h production of high-purity silicon and silane.
Solar power sets record in the US with 50 GW added, meanwhile Big Tech bets on nuclear
According to the US Solar Market Insight 2024 Year in Review report by the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) and ...
New Battery Harvests Energy From Radioactive Nuclear Waste
The team tested the battery prototype with cesium-137 and cobalt-60, common radioactive byproducts of nuclear reactors. Using ...
Safety, nuclear waste, water use: Here’s what you need to know about Utah’s nuclear push
The U.S. currently has no permanent disposal facility for that radioactive waste, the NRC says. That means all waste from nuclear reactors — including SMRs and microreactors that could be built in ...
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Three TVA nuclear reactors are shut down at once, pushing utility to ramp up fossil fuels
Environmental groups have warned for years of a TVA power system in which aging sources of carbon-free energy – nuclear ...
Research Round-Up: Week Seven
A meta-analysis of 45 studies including more than 300,000 people has shown that increasing time spent looking at screens is ...
Big Tech's big bet on nuclear power to fuel artificial intelligence
Faced with the need to cut carbon emissions, and an increasing energy demand to power AI, companies like Microsoft, Google and Amazon are investing in nuclear, from restarting Three Mile Island, to ...