An $80-billion federal commitment to nuclear energy won’t deliver the reactors needed to power AI data centers for over a decade. Company valuations are soaring on nuclear plans, but permitting delays ...

RICHLAND — Nearly three decades have passed since Energy Northwest, operator of Washington’s sole nuclear power reactor near Richland, changed its name to shed its former identity and move beyond its ...

Nuclear energy isn't as clean as we like to believe. The associated power plants produce small amounts of nuclear waste that require proper disposal. The main enemy here is time. All radioactive ...

Idaho National Laboratory (INL) has teamed up with artificial intelligence (AI) computing giant NVIDIA to advance “PROMETHEUS,” INL’s first-of-its-kind demonstration of an autonomous nuclear reactor ...

The Department of Energy (DOE) has released specifications for 26 artificial intelligence (AI) challenges under its Genesis Mission that could reshape how power plants are designed, licensed, built, ...

If artificial intelligence is the zeitgeist of the 21st century, it’s powered by something more prosaic: electricity. The energy required to train a frontier model is equivalent to the annual power ...