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

Reopening old nuclear plants can only go so far.

China's demo reactor could breed nuclear fuel from rare earth waste

Google and Amazon invest in small modular reactors to power data centers

For nearly four decades, the nuclear industry failed to permit any more new nuclear plants. The time is right for a renaissance.

Trump has given two entrepreneurs a mission to make the government more efficient. It's unclear how Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy would accomplish that.

Your binge of cat videos is now fueling the demand for a new breed of power for the ever-hungry data centers, keeping your streams and search results coming with reliable, carbon-free energy. Spoiler alert: the answer might just be nuclear.

Google signed a first-of-its-kind deal to purchase nuclear energy for its data centers from Kairos Power, a company developing small modular reactors.

The plant is scheduled to come back online by 2028

The nuclear startup has received the greenlight from the Department of Energy to conduct site investigations for the planned reactor in Idaho Falls, Idaho.

Three Mile Island, the site of the nation's most serious nuclear reactor accident, could reopen with Microsoft as its sole customer.

Big Tech is eager to tap the U.S. nuclear system to power generative AI, but regulatory snags and local opposition are hurdles.

Friday's announcement by Constellation Energy comes five years after its then-parent company shut down Three Mile Island, saying it was losing money.

The Environmental Protection Agency, which polices chemical contaminants, has been subjecting employees at its Chicago offices to water contaminated with metal and Legionella, the bacteria that causes the deadly Legionnaires' disease.

The plant supplies 6% of California's power, but carries a 1 in 37,000 chance of experiencing a Chernobyl-style nuclear meltdown within five years.

Despite the infamous meltdown, owners of a third of the U.S.'s nuclear plants are reportedly in talks with tech companies to help power data centers.

Driven by the ravenous energy appetites of artificial intelligence developers and green technology manufacturers, Three Mile Island is poised for a comeback.

ADVANCE Act heads for Biden's signature, but it may be too little, too late.

The California Legislature is signaling that it could cancel a $400 million loan payment to help finance a longer lifespan for the state's last nuclear power plant

The federal government will provide a $1.5 billion loan to restart a nuclear power plant in southwestern Michigan. Officials say it would be the first nuclear power plant to be reopened in the U.S.