TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — Three Arizona utility companies, Tucson Electric Power, the Salt River Project and Arizona Public Service, are teaming up to explore adding nuclear generation as an energy ...

are smaller and cheaper than traditional nuclear power plants, and produce much less power. However, while there are some 80 different designs under development globally, according to the ...

Smaller reactors could be deployed faster and cheaper than traditional nuclear power plants, which have been plagued by cost overruns and delays. The country's most recent large nuclear plant ...

In a world first, NIF scientists achieved a successful nuclear fusion reaction with a net energy gain (although they didn’t count the energy needed to power the lasers). It was a big step ...

The utilities will consider both small and large nuclear reactors, with a possible new power plant envisioned 15 or more years out. The utilities have applied for a grant from the U.S. Department ...

Tucson Electric Power is joining Arizona’s other two largest electric utilities on a long-term proposal to have a new nuclear power plant built to help meet the state’s rising power demand ...

One alternative is SMRs, built at a fraction of the size of a regular nuclear power plant, which can be up and running much faster. Industry players said the advantages of SMRs include scalability ...

HANOI (Reuters) -- Vietnam will hold talks with foreign partners this month about projects to develop its first two nuclear power plants, the government said on Tuesday. State utility EVN and ...

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This could be achieved by keeping existing reactors open longer or by building new nuclear power plants. Building 4 GW of new nuclear capacity would be a major shift in policy, requiring ...