Energy minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa. Siphiwe Sibeko/Reuters South Africa expects to lift the care and maintenance status of its Pebble Bed Modular Reactor (PBMR) by the first quarter of next year or even earlier, energy minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa said on Wednesday. Once considered a global leader in the development of small modular nuclear reactors, South Africa…
Dr Jannie Zaaiman, CEO of the South Africa Information and Communication Technology Association. Within the next five years, companies in the artificial intelligence (AI) game are going to need enough power to light up New York City 17 times over, and Goldman Sachs tells us that less than 10% of the needed power will be…
Amazon has unveiled significantly expanded plans and shared initial renderings for its advanced nuclear energy project in Washington State, its home headquarters. Read: Apple bumps entry-level 14-inch MacBook Pro to M5 chip The planned facility, now officially named the Cascade Advanced Energy Facility, will be built near Energy Northwest’s Columbia Generating Station outside of Richland,…
CBS News got a rare and up-close look at the B-2 bombers used to target Iran’s nuclear facilities. The aircraft were part of a surprise U.S. attack in June on three nuclear sites in Iran. The bombers took off from Whiteman Air Force base in Missouri. CBS News’ Ian Lee reports.
President Masoud Pezeshkian also says that Tehran will ‘overcome obstacles’ if wide-ranging UN sanctions are reimposed. Iran’s top security body has warned that action by France, Germany and the United Kingdom to reimpose international sanctions will “effectively suspend” its cooperation with the United Nations nuclear watchdog. The warning from the Supreme National Security Council (SNSC)…
The Open Group, the vendor-neutral technology and standards organization, today announced the formation of the Industrial Advanced Nuclear™ Consortium (IANC). The Consortium Members will collaborate to enable integrated advanced nuclear heat and power solutions to serve industrial customer needs. Through standardization of interfaces and sourcing terminology and adopting risk-appropriate design practices, the Consortium will deliver…
Google has announced the site of its first nuclear reactor, marking a significant step in the company’s venture into nuclear power. The Hermes 2 plant, a small modular reactor (SMR) from startup Kairos Power, will be built in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. This is part of a long-term purchase agreement with the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)…
Head of US Defense Intelligence Agency Jeffrey Kruse fired alongside two senior Navy officials in latest purge. United States Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has fired a general whose agency’s preliminary intelligence assessment angered President Donald Trump for reporting that the US attack on Iranian nuclear sites in June had inflicted limited damage, according to reports….
The Koeberg nuclear power station north of Cape Town. Image: Eskom The environment minister on Friday upheld a previous decision granting environmental authorisation for state-owned power utility Eskom to build and operate a new nuclear power station in the Western Cape. Environmentalists had appealed against the original 2017 authorisation for a new 4GW nuclear power…
North Korea said Tuesday that while the relationship between its leader Kim Jong Un and President Donald Trump is “not bad,” the United States must accept the isolated country as a nuclear weapons state. Dismissing the idea of further talks on denuclearization, Kim’s powerful sister said that reality has changed since Trump’s first term in…
