An artist’s rendering of NuScale Power’s small modular nuclear reactor plant. Photo courtesy of NuScale Even before Chernobyl’s RBMK reactor became the standard design of the Soviet Union, it was known to have inherent safety flaws but kept unchanged because it was “cheaper” that way. Historians later found that more than economic and technical considerations, it was...

https://world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Rolls-Royce-narrows-search-for-site-of-first-SMR-f The goal is to build the first SMR by 2030 and 10 more by 2035. We have very little time left to reduce the effects of climate catastrophe.  Money spent on projects like this that come in too late to be helpful is money that could have gone to immediate solutions. “A Rolls-Royce-led UK...

While lawmakers acknowledge the role of nuclear and gas in ensuring a stable transitional energy supply, they consider that “the technical review standards proposed by the Commission […] do not respect the criteria of environmentally sustainable economic activities,” the European Parliament wrote in its press release. By Paul Messad EP plenary session – Presentation of the programme...

Spent nuclear fuel rods at the closed Indian Point Energy Center in the lower Hudson Valley will be taxed as real property under a measure given final approval by state lawmakers this month.  The bill is meant to ease the complications surrounding by the decommissioning process for the facility and ease the tax burden for the...

“To make it happen, Canada must expand its renewable energy sector in an unprecedented leap, building more than 50,000 megawatts of new wind and solar every five years by 2050. That’s more than five times the previous record of 9,200 MW built between 2011 and 2015, but the foundation says recent policy changes in other...