Manhattan Project Women
The Atomic Heritage Foundation has posted a page entitled “Women and the Bomb” in partnership with the National Museum of Nuclear Science & HIstory. This page provides a bit of
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Kirsty Gogan
Kirsty Gogan is the founder and managing partner of TerraPraxis, is an internationally sought-after advisor to governments, industry, academic networks and NGOs. Kirsty is an expert who has traveled the
Tech Billionaires Rally around Nuclear
Billionaires are rallying around nuclear, according to a recent report from Pitchbook on venture investments in 2021. Notably, some of these billionaires, Elon Musk and Marc Andreessen, have spoken out
Is the NRC hostile towards innovators?
Robert Bryce writing in Forbes, raises the question . . . though in not so many words. Comparing the NRC’s treatment of Oklo to the galloping progress that the Chinese
A 70th Anniversary for Fission
70 years ago today, on December 20, 1951, the first Experimental Breeder Reactor (EBR-I, pictured below at left) came online at the Idaho National Laboratory to produce usable electricity through
NuScale to go public via SPAC
NuScale, a company that has developed an advanced and innovative form of light water reactor that provides clean, reliable power through a series of smaller modular cores, announced that it
New Nuclear Capital reflects nuclear’s paradigm shift
Nucleation Capital founder and managing partner, Valerie Gardner, joined an impressive roster of virtual speakers at the 2021 New Nuclear Capital conference, December 8-9, 2021, focused on the financing necessary
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A plan to convert coal-fired power plants to advanced nuclear—efficiently
Bryden Wood has revealed plans to repurpose the world’s coal-fired power stations to house modular nuclear reactors as part of a ‘major initiative’ to decarbonize the energy sector. “Repurposing Coal”
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Nuclear—Best Climate Solution by Far
Opinion authors Andrew Fillat and Henry Miller are highly critical of how politicians have handled addressing climate change. Whether it is a lack of critical thinking among politician or whether
France will pour 30 billion euros into small nuclear reactors and other green energy projects
French President Emmanuel Macron announced that France will “pour 30 billion euros, or $34.6 billion, over the next five years into nuclear reactors, semiconductor plants and other strategic investments aimed