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Gen IV plants will be safer and less water intensive, but they won't be commercially viable until 2030 at the earliest. Will there still be market demand?
The next generation of nuclear power reactors promises to be safer, more fuel efficient and less...
May 9, 2011
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While some nations have turned their backs on nuclear, China is pressing ahead with a bold plan to raise capacity from 10.8 GW to as much as 70 GW in 2020
CHENGDU, China—The congenial Professor Duan Xuru doesn't look like a stereotypical mad scientist...
May 8, 2011
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Power generated from coal, natural gas and nuclear withdraws more freshwater per year than the entire agricultural sector; nuclear uses the most
The scramble to cool the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex with seawater in the aftermath of Japan'...
May 4, 2011
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The country's nuclear power expansion depends on imports of equipment, including a new European reactor design under heavy scrutiny for safety risks
NEW DELHI—India's ambitious plans to quadruple its nuclear output by 2020, from the current 4,650...
Apr 4, 2011
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An examination of Japan's effort to contain its escalating nuclear disaster reveals a series of missteps, bad luck and desperate improvisation
By Thursday morning the last line of defense came down to this: a police water cannon, a...
Mar 17, 2011
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Crisis exposes dilemma of whether to build reactors on tsunami-prone coasts or inland sites where water supplies are already unreliable from climate change
Japan's nuclear accident exposes the dilemma of whether to build power plants on tsunami-prone...
Mar 15, 2011
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Report wary of "French model of nuclear socialism," and calls $36 billion of federal loan guarantees a raw deal for taxpayers
Government subsidies of nuclear power plans could hitch U.S taxpayers to a technology that suffers...
Sep 16, 2010
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