Pacific Gas & Electric is deploying Atomic Canyon’s Neutron Enterprise solution at its 2,256-MW Diablo Canyon nuclear plant in what would be the first-ever on-site use of generative AI at a U.S. nuclear power facility.

The e-commerce giant announced last week that it is partnering with several energy companies to develop small modular nuclear reactors, or SMRs. That includes an agreement with a consortium of Washington state utilities to develop and build reactors in southeast Washington that would help power data centers across the Columbia River in Umatilla and Morrow counties.

A crumbling nuclear waste site in Cumbria is leaking thousands of litres of radioactive water into the ground every day, a report by Whitehall’s spending watchdog has warned. The so-called Magnox Swarf Storage Silo is among the most hazardous buildings at Sellafield, Europe’s largest nuclear site, with work ongoing to transfer its contents into newer, safer facilities. 

Nihon Hidankyo, a Japanese group of atomic bomb survivors, has won the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize. Known as hibakusha, the survivors of the 1945 bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki have been recognised by the Norwegian Nobel Committee for efforts to rid the world of nuclear weapons.

EON is stoked to share the good news that our feature film production SOS - The San Onofre Syndrome has so far been included in five independent film festivals, and won top awards in all of them, and counting….

Set in the year 2032 and told through the eyes of fictional newspaper journalist Michael Powell of the ‘East Bay Times,’ novelist Roger Gloss’s prescient cautionary tale opens with Powell’s dispatch covering a State-of-the-State speech by Governor Teresa Morales.

The newly released document, made public by the NRC on Wednesday, is a summary of a Sept. 3 conference call between the federal regulator overseeing the nuclear plant and Holtec, the company that purchased it with hopes of making it the first in nuclear history to be put back into service after decommissioning had begun.

Two weeks ago, the news was filled with reports that Reactor 1 at the Three Mile Island nuclear generating station, which was shut down in 2019, will be refurbished and put back into service for another 20 years or more. Its sole customer will be Microsoft, which needs a lot of electricity to operate its data centers. Reactor 2 is the one that melted down in 1979. It is in the process of being dismantled.