Nuclear power

US to offer incentives to states for nuclear waste storage, building nuclear reactors

The administration of President Donald Trump wants to quadruple US nuclear power capacity to 400 gigawatts by 2050 as electricity demand surges for the first time in decades.

Cooling towers at the former Three Mile Island Nuclear power plant during a tour by Constellation Energy in Londonderry Township, Pennsylvania, US, June 25, 2025
A view shows the Knyaz Pozharsky nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine before a ceremony of raising a naval flag aboard in Severodvinsk, Arkhangelsk region, Russia July 24, 2025.

Akkuyu nuclear plant: Russia funds $9 billion boost as Turkey targets 2026 launch

Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO)'s Kashiwazaki Kariwa nuclear power plant, one of the world's largest nuclear facilities, stands along the seaside in Kashiwazaki, Niigata prefecture, Japan December 21, 2025.

Japan prepares to restart world's biggest nuclear plant 15 years after Fukushima disaster

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un presides over the 13th plenary meeting of the Eighth Central Committee of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea, in Pyongyang, North Korea, in this picture released by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency, December 12, 2025.

North Korea: Japan’s move toward nuclear weapons must be 'thoroughly curbed'


Netanyahu’s 2018 Tehran gamble: The roots of the US bombing of Iran - opinion

Benjamin Netanyahu's unveiling of the Mossad's Tehran archive heist in 2018 created a shift in the international approach to Iran.

 PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu exposes files of Iran’s nuclear program at a news conference in Tel Aviv, in 2018. The true significance of the Tehran archive heist wasn’t just in what it uncovered; it was in what Israel chose to do with it, says the writer.

UK to buy fighter jets capable of carrying tactical nuclear weapons

The purchase of the Lockheed Martin jets would allow Britain's air force to carry nuclear weapons for the first time since the end of the Cold War, Downing Street said.

 An F-35 plane stands on the tarmac at Nevatim Air Force Base.

Putin envoy says Russia could supply a small nuclear power plant for Musk's Mars mission

"Russia can offer a small-sized nuclear power plant for a mission to Mars and other advanced technological capabilities," the state RIA news agency cited the envoy as saying.

SpaceX's next-generation Starship spacecraft atop its Super Heavy booster is launched on its eighth test at the company's Boca Chica launch pad in Brownsville, Texas, March 6, 2025.

Russia may need to expand and upgrade its nuclear arsenal to counter the West, diplomat says

Russian Ambassador-at-Large Grigory Mashkov's statements come after Russia vastly updated its nuclear doctrine.

 Russian President Vladimir Putin inspects the NICA Nuclotron-based ion collider facility as he visits the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in the Moscow region's city of Dubna, Russia June 13, 2024.

The world has Israel to thank for no nuclear fears in post-Assad Syria- opinion

Thanks to Israel, the now-impending Syrian chaos may be deeply destabilizing, but it will plausibly be nonnuclear.

 IN SEPTERMBER  2007, IDF fighter jets carried out Operation Orchard and destroyed a nuclear reactor in Syria. If not for the Israeli operation, nuclear weapons could eventually have fallen into the hands of Sunni jihadi terrorist organizations now beginning to contend for power in post-Assad Syria.

Argentina to add nuclear power plant to 'to meet the energy demands of AI'

The plan's first step involves constructing a small modular reactor (SMR) at the Atucha site, intended to facilitate access to energy throughout Argentina.

 Atucha II.