Nuclear Power

AI’s energy appetite too big for Texas grid, regulators warn

Updated Datacenters coming online in the next 15 months will need to supply at least some of their own power

On-Prem04 Oct 2024 | 26

Uncle Sam lends $1.5B to reignite Michigan nuclear plant in 2025

Up and atom!

Public Sector01 Oct 2024 | 52

Microsoft cash to help reignite Three Mile Island atomic plant

We'll have some fission chips, please

On-Prem20 Sep 2024 | 60

Robot enters Fukushima's nuclear core to retrieve melted-down remains

Video Trying for 3 grams, only 880 tons to go!

Science11 Sep 2024 | 28

Oracle wants to power 1GW datacenter with trio of tiny nuclear reactors

Isn't saying how much they'll cost or when they'll fire up

Off-Prem11 Sep 2024 | 22

Cloud computing hits the nuclear button amid energy crisis

Analysis Other options considered too as the power draw on electricity grids continues unabated

On-Prem03 Sep 2024 | 13

Magnetic personalities at Tokamak Energy form separate division

Fusion biz wants to break superconducting tech into other sectors

Science03 Sep 2024 | 17

Utility firms go nuclear over Amazon datacenter power deal

AEP and Exelon challenge electricity arrangement between power plant and colo DC

On-Prem03 Jul 2024 | 2

Gates-backed nuclear plant breaks ground without guarantee it'll have fuel

TerraPower's atomic facility needs lots of low-enriched uranium and who mainly makes it ... ah, jeez

Science11 Jun 2024 | 80

OpenAI to buy electricity from CEO Sam Altman's nuclear fusion side hustle

Knowing your supplier is always good – and super lab's auditors promise to check for conflicts of interest

AI + ML06 Jun 2024 | 53

Energy buffs give small modular reactors a gigantic reality check

Too expensive, slow, and risky for investors, and they're taking focus off renewables, say IEEFA experts

Science03 Jun 2024 | 122

Amazon to add 15 datacenters to atomic-powered campus

And with up to 960MW of capacity on the table, that may only be the beginning

On-Prem30 May 2024 | 8

Datacenters looking to renewables, nuclear, and gas, in quest for more power

Updated Bit barns might end up adding to the grid's capacity

On-Prem16 May 2024 | 1

AI boom is great news for the nuclear power dreamers

Uranium is so hot right now, mining CEO is glowing with enthusiasm

Off-Prem01 May 2024 | 19

Management company settles for $18.4M after nuclear weapons plant staff fudged their timesheets

The firm 'fessed up to staff misconduct and avoided criminal liability

CSO24 Apr 2024 | 10

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman invests in solar power firm Exowatt to fuel AI datacenters

$20m to keep the industry from having to rely on fossil fuels

On-Prem22 Apr 2024 | 4

OpenAI CEO wants UAE into his plan for a global AI cabal

Asking for emir few billion bucks to pay for lots of fabs, datacenters, and nuclear power plants

AI + ML12 Apr 2024 | 7

Microsoft, OpenAI may be dreaming of $100B 5GW AI 'Stargate' supercomputer

Play it again, Sam

AI + ML01 Apr 2024 | 34

As AI booms, land near nuclear power plants becomes hot real estate

Cheap low-carbon energy? What's not to love...

Systems25 Mar 2024 | 54

Amazon goes nuclear, acquires Cumulus Data's atomic datacenters for $650M

E-commerce giant on the hook for 480MW of power from Susquehanna plant

Off-Prem04 Mar 2024 | 13

Please stop pouring the wrong radioactive water into the sea, Fukushima operator told

Government takes TEPCO to task for caesium absorption tower incident

Science23 Feb 2024 | 41

Japanese Yakuza boss charged with nuclear trafficking by the US

No, this isn't a pitch for a Godzilla sequel

Offbeat22 Feb 2024 | 15

Space nukes: The unbelievably bad idea that's exactly that ... unbelievable

Opinion Like the reality, the concept is blown up out of all proportion. So who launched it this time around?

Science19 Feb 2024 | 297

Sam Altman's chip ambitions may be loonier than feared

Comment $7 trillion will buy you a helluva lotta fabs or every chip biz of consequence

Systems10 Feb 2024 | 59

Microsoft hires energy mavericks in quest for nuclear-powered datacenters

Industry vets specialize in the development of small modular reactors

On-Prem23 Jan 2024 | 41

Japanese earthquake disrupts chip industry operations

Industry lull good for tech, but human toll is grim reading

Systems03 Jan 2024 | 3

Scientists mull Solar Radiation Management – a potential climate-change stop-gap

In-depth As we argue over freeing ourselves from fossil fuels, can SRM buy us time to develop green energy we need?

Science30 Dec 2023 | 246

UK government denies China/Russia nuke plant hack claim

Report suggests Sellafield compromised since 2015, response seems worryingly ignorant of Stuxnet

Security05 Dec 2023 | 26

World's largest nuclear fusion reactor comes online in Japan

JT-60SA produces largest volume of plasma ever made by humans, paves way for ITER

Science04 Dec 2023 | 125

NTT adapts AI network analysis tool to detect faults in nuclear fusion reactors

Here comes the Sun

AI + ML23 Nov 2023 | 4

US nuke reactor lab hit by 'gay furry hackers' demanding cat-human mutants

Staff records swiped, leaked by gang who probably read one too many comics, sorry, graphic novels

Cyber-crime22 Nov 2023 | 99

Half a kilo of cosmic nuclear fuel reignites NASA's deep space dreams

There ain't no party like a Pu-238 party

Science22 Nov 2023 | 38

US Air Force wants to see some atomic motors for future spacecraft

Take this $34M, Lockheed Martin, and give us an uranium fission engine for electricity, heat, propulsion

Public Sector10 Nov 2023 | 72

To prevent 'lost' nukes, scientists suggest storing them in a hall of mirrors

Radio bouncing off multiple reflectors is a hard-to-defeat method of monitoring a weapons cache

Science31 Oct 2023 | 22

Blockchain biz goes nuclear: Standard Power wants to use NuScale reactors for DCs

Please, no crypto boom, thank you

Systems08 Oct 2023 | 36

Nukes, schmukes – fuel cells could power future datacenters

At least in the tropics, say Equinix and the National University of Singapore

Off-Prem04 Oct 2023 | 45

Nuclear-powered datacenters: What could go wrong?

Kettle Or very right? Either way, it's not the usual atomic op we see in IT

On-Prem29 Sep 2023 | 94

Why can't datacenter operators stop thinking about atomic power?

Analysis Three words: Cheap, reliable, power

Off-Prem27 Sep 2023 | 71

Microsoft hiring a nuclear power program manager, because AI needs lots of 'leccy

Envisions a 'comprehensive small modular reactor and microreactor integration roadmap'

Off-Prem25 Sep 2023 | 35

Germany's wild boars still too radioactive to eat largely due to Cold War nuke tests

Scientists one step closer to cracking the case of these atomic swine

Science31 Aug 2023 | 137

Japan complains Fukushima water release created terrifying Chinese Spam monster

Asks Beijing to stop the phone calls harassing civilians, as tests show impact of nuke plant water

Science29 Aug 2023 | 107

Virginia industrial park wants to power DCs with mini nuclear reactors, clean hydrogen

It's buzzword bingo: The datacenter sustainability edition

On-Prem17 Aug 2023 | 16

Hacktivists attack Japanese government over Fukushima wastewater release

Claiming affiliation with Anonymous, e-hippies want more debate over radioactive flows

Security14 Aug 2023 | 38

Lawrence Livermore lab repeats fusion breakthrough – yep, still kinda works

Greater yield than last year, but don't ditch your solar panels just yet

Science07 Aug 2023 | 25

First US nuclear power plant built this century goes online

Westinghouse's 2017 bankruptcy almost ended the Vogtle 3 reactor

Science01 Aug 2023 | 32

Aspiration to deploy new UK nuclear reactor every year a 'wish', not a plan

Notably stretching the target requires 'a credible pathway towards its delivery,' says committee

Offbeat01 Aug 2023 | 263

NASA, DARPA enlist Lockheed to build nuclear-powered spacecraft

Hey, at least this one isn't an actual bomb

Science27 Jul 2023 | 16

Brits and Yanks join forces to make fusion magnets cool again

How cool? About -250°C

Science31 May 2023 | 23

Microsoft's big bet on helium-3 fusion explained

Feature Magnets, not lasers, could be secret to endless power (if it actually works)

Emerging Clean Energy Tech Week17 May 2023 | 77

Brit fusion magnets set for US gamma ray bombardment test

Tokamak Energy off to Albuquerque desert to douse kit in radiation

Emerging Clean Energy Tech Week27 Apr 2023 | 10

In the battle between Microsoft and Google, LLM is the weapon too deadly to use

Opinion The only winning move is not to play

AI + ML03 Apr 2023 | 114

This US national lab turned to AI to hunt rogue nukes

All it needs to do is detect ■■■■■■■■■■ in the ■■■■■ at ■■■■■■ when the ■■■■■■■■

AI + ML30 Mar 2023 | 34

NASA's space nuclear power program is a hot mess

13 years of research at $40m/year only produced 2 cancelled projects, says oversight arm

Science21 Mar 2023 | 8

Swedish datacenter operator wants to go nuclear

Harnessing a Small Modular Reactor could also power 30,000 surrounding homes, Bahnhof CEO claims

On-Prem08 Mar 2023 | 15

Unless things change, first zettaflop systems will need nuclear power, AMD's Su says

Of course the company that figured out chiplets says the answer is more chiplets

Systems23 Feb 2023 | 54

Private company set up to oversee UK's prototype fusion reactor

STEP won't be complete until 2040, but here's a 'delivery body' in the meantime

Science06 Feb 2023 | 35