Nuclear energy

Forum: Kudos to Govt for forward-looking approach on nuclear energy

There’s no AI boom without an energy boom

AI and data centres might be indispensable, but their vast and growing appetite for energy has reached a crunch point, says the writer.

askST: How do countries deal with waste from nuclear energy?

Storage casks, each standing 6m tall, for used nuclear fuel and high-level waste at Switzerland’s interim storage site, which has been in operation since 2000.

Deep underground nuclear waste storage could be feasible in Singapore, study shows

Disused fuel elements from nuclear power plants and research reactors have been stored in special protective casks at the Ahaus interim storage facility since 1992 in Germany.

Science Talk

Why Singapore is getting its ducks in a row in exploring nuclear energy

sbnuclear19 - Aerial shot of the Gosgen nuclear power plant in Switzerland

Credit: Kernkraftwerk Gosgen

Russian drone hits nuclear-fuel storage facility near Chernobyl, Ukraine says

A fragment of a Russian drone that purportedly hit one of the buildings of the nuclear storage facility in the Chernobyl exclusion zone on June 7.

Russian-run Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant says power supply has been restored

FILE PHOTO: A view shows Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant from the bank of Kakhovka Reservoir near the town of Nikopol after the Nova Kakhovka dam breached, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Dnipropetrovsk region, Ukraine June 16, 2023. REUTERS/Alina Smutko/File Photo

Witkoff, Kushner meet nuclear experts at national lab in Tennessee, source says

Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, Special Envoy for Peace Missions listen as Vice President JD Vance (not pictured) speaks during a news conference after meeting with representatives from Pakistan and Iran, Sunday, April 12, 2026, in Islamabad, Pakistan. Jacquelyn Martin/Pool via REUTERS

Russia's Rosatom says Ukrainian drone hit engineers demining areas around Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant

FILE PHOTO: A view shows Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant from the bank of Kakhovka Reservoir near the town of Nikopol after the Nova Kakhovka dam breached, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Dnipropetrovsk region, Ukraine June 16, 2023. REUTERS/Alina Smutko/File Photo

South Korea, US agree to accelerate nuclear cooperation discussions

South Korea’s delegation was led by First Vice-Foreign Minister Park Yoon-joo, while the US side was headed by Allison Hooker, the US State Department’s undersecretary for political affairs.

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