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The future of power. News on renewable energy, solar tech, and the global shift to sustainable power sources.
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Battery technology is morphing from a quick fix for grid bottlenecks into a massive long-term solution. Meanwhile, geopolitical supply shocks are accelerating the shift....
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The US Department of Energy has approved the safety design for Natura's liquid-fueled molten salt reactor. Operating at near atmospheric pressure, the system uses passive gravity drains to prevent meltdowns, paving the way for industrial water purification....
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A £74 3D-printed flow battery from Queen's University Belfast replaces expensive vanadium with iron. By open-sourcing the design with an Ikea-style manual, researchers are solving the reproducibility crisis in grid-scale energy storage....
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Australia exports 5,910 tonnes of uranium annually and just signed a major supply deal with India, yet federal law bans domestic nuclear power. The real hurdle isn't just legal - it's a massive infrastructure gap....
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Iron powder burns like coal but emits zero carbon. KIT researchers reveal how this rust-based cycle could save existing power plants and solve the seasonal energy storage crisis....
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Aalo Atomics has successfully triggered a self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction in its Aalo-X test reactor. The 10-megawatt system shares full-scale components with future commercial models, signaling a major shift in how tech giants plan to power AI infrastructure....
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AMPERA has manufactured the first full-scale 3D-printed nuclear reactor core. Powered by thorium and designed to run for 30 years without refueling, this 30-megawatt microreactor targets the massive energy demands of AI data centers and military bases....
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The new system operates at 4x the current density of traditional alkaline units, cuts footprint by 66%, and ramps output at 10% per second. Standardized balance-of-plant infrastructure is finally replacing bespoke fusion engineering....
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Polar Night Energy's 2025 Pornainen facility survived Finland's harshest winter, proving crushed rock can hold 250°C heat for months. Sand is quietly beating lithium in the heavy industry sector....
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General Atomics secures $20M to build the Blanket Component Test Facility in San Diego. By focusing on tritium fuel generation rather than just ignition, this project shifts fusion from a physics experiment to an impending industrial sector....
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Valar Atomics has successfully brought its Ward 250 reactor to criticality in just nine months. This milestone proves that the DOE's accelerated regulatory pathways can actually deliver rapid nuclear deployment....
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Hadron Energy has patented a 10MW microreactor that compresses an entire nuclear plant into a single pressure vessel. The design eliminates external coolant piping, enabling factory assembly and potential air transport to remote industrial sites....
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Groundwater acted as a natural throttle, boiling away to prevent meltdowns. The Oklo reactor ran for hundreds of thousands of years without human intervention - and it might hold the key to modern nuclear waste storage....
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NIF proved fusion works with 192 complex beamlines, but Xcimer's new Phoenix prototype cuts that to just two. The race for commercial grid-scale energy is on....
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To meet the massive energy demands of AI data centers, fusion startup Zap Energy is adding a 10MW underground fission microreactor to its clean energy lineup....
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Researchers have developed FusionMAE, a self-supervised AI model that simplifies complex plasma diagnostics to accelerate nuclear fusion energy development....
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Millimeter-wave drilling is shattering the geographic limitations of traditional geothermal energy, unlocking a path to clean, baseload power anywhere on Earth....
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In 1995, a 17-year-old Boy Scout successfully built a homemade nuclear breeder reactor in his backyard, triggering a massive federal emergency response....
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GE Vernova Hitachi Nuclear Energy has signed a main services agreement with Swedish engineering firm AFRY to deploy the BWRX-300 small modular reactor in Europe....
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Researchers have achieved a 130% quantum yield in solar cells by splitting single light photons into two energy packets....
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Russia has officially agreed to construct a 2,400 MW nuclear facility in Vietnam's Ninh Thuan region, reviving a long-dormant energy initiative....
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