The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission or FERC has released its latest report on the U.S. Energy Infrastructure Update. According to the report, 82% of all new electrical generating capacity in the U.S. in the first quarter of 2013 came from renewable energy sources. This totals to 1,546MW of generated electricity, [...]

Have the dangers of nuclear power been overhyped? If former NASA scientist and climate activist James Hansen is to be believed, the use of nuclear power over the past few decades has actually saved lives. A recently-published paper by two researchers at NASA‘s Goddard Institute of Space Studies has run the [...]

Japan recently announced that a team of research scientists managed to successfully extract natural gas from an offshore deposit of methane hydrate. Methane hydrate, also known as clathrates or, more colloquially, as flammable ice, is a sherbert-like substance that forms when methane gas is trapped and pressurized in ice below [...]

Nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and submarines have been reliably protecting the United States since the Nautilus was launched back in 1954. Today we’re beginning to see nuclear-powered cars on our city streets. To balance that out, we’re also finding older technology increasing in popularity: coal-powered automobiles. Hey wait, you say, didn’t [...]

Many of us are wondering how we are going to pay for our fuel if the energy prices continue to rise at the current rates. People are already struggling financially and debt levels are at an all-time high, so any increase in basic living costs could push the average UK [...]

Image Source In approximately 450BC a Grecian philosopher, Democritus, coined the term átomos meaning ‘indivisible’. We now know, of course, that atoms are not indivisible, and that the fission of electrons produced during radioactive decay can be used indirectly to juice our gadgets. We are all used to the concept of [...]

Uranium is what has been used in power plants since the 1950’s, not long after Albert Einstein formulated E=mc^2, which proved the tremendous power and potential in harnessing nuclear energy. Since then, nuclear energy has been used for both peaceful and as nuclear bombs in war – the last one [...]

This past weekend, the Japanese headed to the polls to take part in the first election since the catastrophic nuclear disaster. But the election results have anti-nuclear critics across the country shocked and baffled. Many of them are struggling to understand how the Liberal Democratic Party not only won, but [...]

It is a bold admission from a company that tried desperately to skirt around accusations that it was responsible for one of the worst nuclear accidents in 25 years. This week, the operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant admitted its lack of safety controls and bad habits were [...]

It’s an announcement that anxious Japanese residents don’t want to hear, following one of the world’s worst nuclear disasters in history. The operator of Japan’s disgraced Fukushima nuclear power plant said it could not rule out the possibility that it may still be leaking radiation into the sea. Back in [...]