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Behind the blast doors: A look inside Maryland’s only nuclear power plant
Spotlight on Maryland received exclusive access to observe the workings of Maryland’s only nuclear power plant, one month ...
Nuclear Engineering International12h
Existing power sites and new nuclear
One opportunity to reduce the challenge of building new nuclear capacity is to develop reactors at existing large power ...
Interesting Engineering on MSN9h
US firm unveils powerful nuclear reactor prototype to power data centers, AI
Aalo Atomics, a Texas-based nuclear energy company, has unveiled the industry’s first fully modular reactor designed to meet ...
How an unused nuclear power plant became home to a world-class acoustics lab
Never used for their intended purpose, the cooling towers of Washington Nuclear Projects 3 and 5 (WNP-3 and WNP-5) loom over ...
MIT Technology Review12h
This Texas chemical plant could get its own nuclear reactors
Dow Chemical and X-energy are one step closer to bringing advanced nuclear technology to a chemical plant in Texas.
Interesting Engineering on MSN6h
US abandoned nuclear plant finds surprising second life as world’s quietest sound lab
The two 496-foot-tall WNP-3 and WNP-5 cooling towers of the abandoned Washington Public Power Supply System (WPPSS) in Satsop ...
Inside Austin-based Aalo Atomics' plans to mass manufacture nuclear power plants
Aalo Atomics unveiled its nuclear power plant prototype and Austin manufacturing facility. Read about the company's plans to ...
Marketplace2d
How to ethically design a nuclear power plant
The small, modular reactor industry could bring safer, low-carbon electricity production closer to populated areas. Professor ...
Supporters defend Trump’s pick to control America’s nuclear arsenal before Senate grilling
President Donald Trump's nominee for National Nuclear Security Administrator, Brandon Williams, is appearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee.