Texas takes giant steps toward nuclear energy dominance

Texas A&M University System Chancellor John Sharp last week announced that his university has surpassed even the renowned Massachusetts Institute of Technology and now has the nation’s largest nuclear engineering research department.

By |2025-02-12T18:11:19-05:00February 16th, 2025|Comments Off on Texas takes giant steps toward nuclear energy dominance

Can the U.S. retake the lead in new nuclear energy?

U.S.-based nuclear energy companies are not the only ones to lament that the U.S. nuclear energy permitting system, and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in particular, is the primary obstacle to faster deployment.

By |2025-01-16T09:39:25-05:00January 17th, 2025|Comments Off on Can the U.S. retake the lead in new nuclear energy?

FERCing the nuclear-powered data center

The FERC decision, many fear, could cripple data centers’ ability to access sufficient electric power to operate the energy-sucking artificial intelligence platforms that have grown exponentially since the introduction of ChatGPT.

By |2024-11-13T00:43:27-05:00November 14th, 2024|Comments Off on FERCing the nuclear-powered data center
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