by Emily | Feb 10, 2026 | Clean Energy News, Nuclear
Nuclear power station with steaming cooling towers and blooming canola field. Late last week, the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Nuclear Energy awarded over $19 million to five U.S. companies to research and develop recycling technologies for used...
by Emily | Feb 3, 2026 | Clean Energy News, Nuclear
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Photo The Hanford Site recently began immobilizing low-activity, radioactive waste by converting it into glass: a process known as vitrification. The successful start-up of Hanford’s Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant will...
by Emily | Dec 4, 2025 | Clean Energy News, Nuclear
A mockup of a fuel bundle for TerraPower’s Natrium reactor. (TerraPower Photo) Nuclear power company TerraPower has passed the Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff’s final safety evaluation for a permit to build a reactor in Wyoming. The Washington-based company backed...
by Emily | Oct 21, 2025 | Clean Energy News, Education, Nuclear
Renderings of the Cascade Advanced Energy Facility, a planned nuclear plant near Richland, Wash., that is a partnership of Amazon, X-energy and Energy Northwest. (X-energy Illustration) Last year, Amazon announced agreements to preserve existing and support the...
by Emily | Jun 26, 2025 | Clean Energy News, Nuclear
The Columbia nuclear power plant. Last month, Energy Northwest and Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) announced the approval of a $700 million project proposal to increase the output of the Columbia Generation Station nuclear facility, which is the region’s...
by Emily | May 29, 2025 | Clean Energy News, Nuclear, Policy & Legislation
Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant (Credit: U.S. Dept. of Energy) Late last week, President Donald Trump signed several executive orders intended to increase domestic production of nuclear power within the next 25 years. The orders come as demand for electricity...
