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When the Northwest Sturgeon Refinery was finally ready to process bitumen after years of engineering and construction, a mission-critical component in the $12 billion facility failed after only 40 hours.The component was a burner buried inside the refiner

Abandoned Westinghouse factoryWestinghouse Electric Company has confidentially filed for an IPO. The nuclear business which was severed from its industrial parent the Westinghouse Electric Corporation nearly three decades after its transformation into CBS

The tired joke that fusion is always twenty years away is being challenged by billions of dollars of private investment and an ecosystem of peppy startups racing into prototyping a dizzying variety of approaches to the age-old problem of how to harness th

Across seven decades Iran's nuclear program has cost an extraordinary sum measured in capital, trained talent, diplomatic isolation, sanctions and most recently widespread aerial bombardment.The economic damages resulting from sanctions alone have been es

For almost the entirety of human existence, a single material did the work that coal, oil, gas, steel, and concrete now divide among themselves. Wood provided the fuel that cooked our food, fired ceramics, and heated indoor spaces. Its timbers were the sk

Ernest Moniz was US Secretary of Energy from 2013 to 2017 and was the lead technical negotiator of the Iran Nuclear Deal, the JCPOA.Before his political career he ran the physics department at MIT, where his eventual Iranian negotiator counterpart, Ali Ak

In much of the West, what is holding back nuclear power is no longer safety concerns, regulation, or public opinion. In America, despite eye watering subsidies and incentives, utilities just aren't biting. The question that dogs future nuclear projects is

The CANDU pressurized heavy water reactor is the third most widely deployed reactor technology in the world, with a total of 54 units built between Canada, India, Pakistan, Argentina, Romania, Korea and China. Its distinctive modular pressure tube core, h

In the early 1960s the U.S. nuclear industry went from stagnation to the fastest sustained growth for any major industry in the country's history.Throughout the mid 1950s to early 1960s attempts by the Atomic Energy Commission to kickstart a power reactor

A best-practices guide for enterprise AI agents: treat system prompts as runtime config, run tools as Managed Skills, and make models a platform decision - so you can debug faster, ship AI improvements without app releases, and fix production behavior fro