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Government to analyse potential benefits of new generation of reactors

"... productivity ... has deluded far too many of the economics profession’s conventional thinkers."

In the final analysis, this is a project to celebrate—not because it checks some ideological box, but because it works. It's funded privately, regulated rationally, and constructed in a community that understands energy....

A Russian drone attack has inflicted tens of millions of pounds of damage to the site of the Chornobyl nuclear power plant, according to experts. The photographer Julia Kochetova has gained access to the area

Office for Nuclear Regulation told government that claims about reactor delays in press release were ‘not true’

New nuclear power stations will cost billions to build and run, and cost taxpayers and energy customers dear, says John French. Plus a letter from Dr David Lowry

Solar storms as intense as a 1921 superstorm have the potential to cause a nightmare scenario – and we are unprepared

Exlterra projects that the test site could reach natural background radiation levels within five years, a substantial reduction from the estimated 24,000 years required for natural decay without intervention .​

Critical minerals, nuclear power and the ‘weaponisation’ of energy supplies were discussed at international conference

Energy secretary says countries must work together during conference at which US delegate called net zero ‘dangerous’

The Lake District after the 1957 Windscale nuclear disaster is a great setting for a game – and gorgeously rendered. That doesn’t mean I want to endlessly keep traversing it

Ministers might care to heed conclusions of 1976 Flowers report before they go ahead with latest energy policy plans

Plutonium breeder reactors can be designed to have a breeding margin of up to 40%, that is they will produce 40% more plutonium than they consume. As a practical matter they are usually designed to operate with a breeding...

Seven Regions Nuclear Free alliance launches campaign representing groups who oppose the Coalition’s proposed nuclear reactors in their communities across Queensland, NSW, SA, Victoria and WA

Exclusive: Brad Battin says he had a conversation with the federal opposition leader about the ‘language’ he would use about plans to build a nuclear reactor in eastern Victoria