This video features a nuclear engineer reacting to a discussion about building a nuclear weapon from a scientific and safety perspective. It clarifies misconceptions and explains what is unrealistic ...

Drawing on decades of experience working on Capitol Hill, at the Department of Energy, and in nuclear nonproliferation policy ...

This April, in a speech given at the Shanghai branch of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the physicist Xu Hongjie announced a breakthrough. For over a decade, his team had been working on an ...

The government on Monday introduced the Sustainable Harnessing and Advancement of Nuclear Energy for Transforming India (SHANTI) Bill, 2025, in the Lok Sabha, signalling a fundamental reset of India’s ...

Ms. Tuhus-Dubrow is the author of “Atomic Dreams: The New Nuclear Evangelists and the Fight for the Future of Energy.” She wrote from Irvine, Calif. At the annual United Nations climate conference in ...

To learn more about the CNBC CFO Council, visit cnbccouncils.com/cfo The Trump administration aims to quadruple the current nuclear energy output over the next 25 ...

Rapid growth in AI, data centers, EVs, crypto, and climate-driven electricity use is increasing the need for reliable, large-scale power, putting nuclear back in focus. Nuclear stands out for its low ...

The second stage uses this plutonium in fast breeder reactors to multiply fuel and prepare the ground for the final phase — ...

Nuclear power’s “cheap, clean, and secure” promise is breaking down. Small modular reactors (SMRs) remain largely theoretical, with the only advanced U.S. project cancelled over high costs. Renewables ...

The rapid rise of artificial intelligence is pushing global energy infrastructure to its limits. Data centers are proliferating, workloads are intensifying, and the power required to sustain this ...

As coal’s role shrinks, nuclear power is expected to expand gradually, increasing its share from about 3% at present to 5-8% by 2070 under CPS, reflecting its growing role in displacing coal-based ...