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Behind the blast doors: A look inside Maryland’s only nuclear power plant
Spotlight on Maryland received exclusive access to observe the workings of Maryland’s only nuclear power plant, one month ...
Inside Austin company’s plans to mass manufacture nuclear power plants
Aalo Atomics reveals its prototype for the industry’s first fully modular nuclear plant and reactors designed specifically ...
Inside Austin-based Aalo Atomics' plans to mass manufacture nuclear power plants
Aalo Atomics unveiled its nuclear power plant prototype and Austin manufacturing facility. Read about the company's plans to ...
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This Texas chemical plant could get its own nuclear reactors
Dow Chemical and X-energy are one step closer to bringing advanced nuclear technology to a chemical plant in Texas.
These Floating Nuclear Reactors—Powered by Salt—Could Supercharge America’s Electrical Grid
The small nuclear power plants will use molten salt in their fuel, making them safer and more versatile and portable than ...
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Radioisotope generators - Inside the ‘nuclear batteries’ that power faraway spacecraft
Radioisotope thermoelectric generators can turn heat into electricity using a principle called the Seebeck effect, discovered ...
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Westinghouse Achieves First Deployment of LEU+ Fuel in the U.S.
Westinghouse provided its EnCore ® ATF Lead Test Assemblies with greater than 5 wt.% LEU+ ADOPT ® fuel, chromium coated ...
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Environmentalists Are Rethinking Nuclear. Should They?
Fourteen years after the Fukushima disaster, nuclear power is being rebranded as a climate savior, and fission is in fashion.
Nuclear touted as key to Md.'s energy demand, rising prices amid legislature's inaction
A senior executive from a Maryland-based energy conglomerate said they are optimistic about nuclear energy’s potential expansion but warned that multiple factor ...