Nuclear power has been gaining more interest and attention at global climate summits, as a key weapon in the fight against climate change. But climate advocates say it's still suffering from a terrible reputation.

Nuclear power is expected to hit record levels in 2025. Calling it "clean energy," advocates are pushing for the controversial power source to play a greater role in global plans to tackle climate change.Nuclear power releases no carbon emissions during ...

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Global nuclear energy production is set to reach a record high in 2025, driven by increased investment and growing demand.

These shifts have been great for existing nuclear plants. We’re seeing efforts to boost their power output, extend the lifetime of old reactors, and even reopen facilities that have shut down. That’s good news for climate action, because nuclear power plants produce consistent electricity with very low greenhouse-gas emissions.

As promised, President Donald Trump began reversing the country’s energy policies his first day in office with a spate of orders largely favoring oil, gas and coal. But there is one renewable energy that did find favor: geothermal.

TerraPower, a nuclear energy startup founded by Bill Gates, struck a deal this week with one of the largest data center developers in the US to deploy advanced nuclear reactors. TerraPower and Sabey Data Centers (SDC) are working together on a plan to run existing and future facilities on nuclear energy from small reactors.

Trump Energy nominee Chris Wright's Senate confirmation hearing was briefly stopped by protestors shouting about the LA wildfires and global warming.

Sweden plans to store nuclear waste for 100,000 years, but the author questions whether this is feasible given the uncertainties of human civilization and technological progress over such a long period.

The Doomsday Clock, a symbolic measure of how close the world is to catastrophe, was moved to just 89 seconds to midnight today.

Seventy-eight years ago, scientists created a unique sort of timepiece — named the Doomsday Clock — as a symbolic attempt to gauge how close humanity is to destroying the world.