Tag: Nuclear power
Nuclear in your backyard? Tiny reactors could one day power towns...
Aditi Verma, University of Michigan
You might imagine nuclear power plants as behemoth facilities spanning hundreds of acres. Nuclear...
NASA plans to build a nuclear reactor on the Moon –...
Michelle L.D. Hanlon, University of Mississippi
The first space race was about flags and footprints. Now, decades later, landing...
The treaty meant to control nuclear risks is under strain 80...
Stephen Herzog, Middlebury
Eighty years ago – on Aug. 6 and 9, 1945 – the U.S. military dropped atomic...
‘Big Beautiful Bill’ will have Americans paying higher prices for dirtier energy
Daniel Cohan, Rice University
When congressional Republicans decided to cut some Biden-era energy subsidies to help fund their One...
Military force may have delayed Iran’s nuclear ambitions – but history...
Stephen Collins, Kennesaw State University
While the U.S. military’s strikes on Iran on June 21, 2025, are believed to...
Uranium enrichment: A chemist explains how the surprisingly common element is...
André O. Hudson, Rochester Institute of Technology
When most people hear the word uranium, they think of mushroom clouds,...
Why the United States needs NATO – 3 things to know
Klaus W. Larres, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Former President Donald Trump has long made it...
Kakhovka dam breach raises risk for Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant – receding...
Najmedin Meshkati, University of Southern California
A blast on June 6, 2023, destroyed the Kakhovka dam on the Dnieper...
EXPLORING NATURE
The western US is in a snow drought, and storms have...
Alejandro N. Flores, Boise State University
Much of the western U.S. has started 2026 in the midst of a...
