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In May, the United States took another step toward building the country’s first advanced nuclear reactors at an industrial site. The project at a chemical plant in southeast Texas includes four small ...

State and federal lawmakers, nuclear energy experts and industry professionals from around the globe met last week at the Global Nuclear Energy Economic Summit at Purdue University to discuss the ...

WASHINGTON, Aug. 18, 2025 — From electric cars to artificial intelligence (AI) data centers, the technologies people use every day require a growing need for electricity. In theory, nuclear fusion — a ...

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Nuclear power seems to be having a moment. As the Trump administration methodically throws up roadblocks to slow, if not stop, carbon-free renewable solar and wind power, carbon-free nuclear appears ...

The convergence of nuclear technology and artificial intelligence is no longer a far-off possibility. A recent announcement from Aalo Atomics and Microsoft—an unlikely pairing even a few years ago—has ...

BRAINERD — The community is invited to attend an upcoming forum, “Minnesota’s Nuclear Energy Future,” hosted by the Gordon Rosenmeier Center for State and Local Government. The Rosenmeier Forum will ...

Texas A&M University nuclear engineering doctoral student Zavier Ndum Ndum researches the use of large-language models, a form of AI used in chatbots like ChatGPT, to assist in nuclear engineering and ...

The problems presented by nuclear energy as an alternative shipping fuel are less about the technology itself, and more about operational feasibility.