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Terrapower

Three Mile Island

Congress wants to turn the nuclear regulator into the US industry’s cheerleader—again

By Victor Gilinsky | Nuclear Energy, Opinion

West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin questions witnesses about advanced nuclear reactors in November 2023.

Congress takes aim at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission: ‘It’s déjà vu all over again’

By Victor Gilinsky | Nuclear Energy

SMR control room simulator

A small modular reactor’s demise calls for big change in Energy Department policy

By Henry Sokolski | Nuclear Energy

SMR research in lab

Building promises of small modular reactors—one conference at a time

By Markku Lehtonen | Nuclear Energy

Bill Gates in October 2018, at the EU Commission headquarters in Brussels, Belgium to promote health and clean-energy Initiatives. Photo by Thierry Monasse/Getty Images

Bill Gates’ bad bet on plutonium-fueled reactors

By Frank von Hippel | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Weapons