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Antares has raised $470 million to build small modular reactors — 100 kW to 1 MW — for U.S. Air Force bases.

Outside the small town of Paducah, Kentucky, a wealth of uranium is locked away in thousands of storage cylinders filled with waste material from a now-closed nuclear enrichment facility. Lasers could help get it out. A company called Global Laser Enrichment (GLE) is looking to reprocess this old material with a new technology called laser…

A close call in Northern Virginia revealed just how poorly data centers respond to grid disruptions. Here's how to fix the problem.

This climate phenomenon could cause a massive global temperature spike and cause economic losses of $10 trillion by 2032.

Meta has made significant investments in natural gas over the past year. Now it's dropping out of an industry renewable energy group.

On July 3, as a heat wave swept the region, New York State’s grid imported 52 gigawatt-hours of electricity from Canada—enough to meet about 9% of its total electricity demand that day. Some of that power shuttled in on a 339-mile power line stretching from Quebec to Queens called the Champlain Hudson Power Express (CHPE).…

OpenAI will spend the equivalent of Sweden's GDP on infrastructure through 2030.

Sila's fresh $300 million round will help it make enough of its silicon-carbon anode material to power more than 100,000 EVs.

New data centers built through 2033 could consume as much electricity as India uses today.

Maritime nuclear energy startup Bluecore Energy has raised $10 million in a pre-seed funding round led by Slauson & Co.

How does AI make you feel? Are you excited to “vibe-code” your smart home? Or anxious about all the added pollution and billions of gallons of water used by data centers? Dig a little deeper and you’ll start to question the actual value of the GPUs that underpin all the leaps and promises of generative […]

The latest estimates reveal that the majority of greenhouse gas emissions from large-scale events such as the FIFA World Cup stem from spectators traveling to host cities.

Monitoring is expensive and labor intensive. But it helps public health officials stop outbreaks.

A recent road trip in an EV revealed just how much faster and more reliable DC Fast charging has become in the U.S.

The FireSat program can spot wildfires that other satellites miss.

The potential deal highlights a growing trend of complex, multi-stage funding rounds that mask true entry prices.

New report says our ability to tie weather damages to climate change is improving.

BP Ventures is shutting down, ending a nearly 20-year run that was marked by reportedly lackluster returns.

It feels as if it should be illegal to even think about heating appliances during the height of summer—seriously, these heat waves in New York have been brutal—but we need to talk about heat pumps. The appliances use electricity for heating, they’re incredibly efficient, and they’re on the rise. (For what it’s worth, many heat…

Syntetica, a French startup that has developed a novel approach to recycling nylon, has already obtained big-name partners and investors.