Author: Fission Today

As countries across the world experience a resurgence in nuclear energy projects, the questions of where and how to dispose of nuclear waste remain as politically fraught as ever. The United States, for instance, has indefinitely stalled its only long-term underground nuclear waste repository. Scientists are using both modeling and experimental methods to study the effects of underground nuclear waste disposal and ultimately, they hope, build public trust in the decision-making process.New research from scientists at MIT, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, and the University of Orléans makes progress in that direction. The study shows that simulations of underground nuclear waste…

Top 25 Topics Searched on Google About Nuclear Energy in the U.S. and Globally A Few Observations of What’s Up for 2026 Neutron Bytes was curious about what people asked Google about nuclear energy in 2025 and what Google artificial Intelligence (AI) platform GEMINI could come up with about the most significant events/trends for nuclear energy in 2025 and possible developments in 2026. (Image: Google Gemini) The information that follows is based on a series of iterative prompts to Google’ GEMINI AI platform. These data reports and related text are about searches by people using Google and do not necessarily…

Hot Air balloons float through the sky over the Rio Grande River near Albuquerque, New Mexico, as part of the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta. This blog will continue the discussion on the EPCA specific to two past, unpublished EPCA cases that predate the litigation against the City of Berkeley. The first is a building performance regulation that applied to both existing and new construction in which the City of Albuquerque was enjoined from implementing its code because of EPCA preemption. Second, the State of Washington successfully defended a facial constitutional challenge against its adopted statutory building performance standard for new…

A new theory-guided framework could help scientists probe the properties of new semiconductors for next-generation microelectronic devices, or discover materials that boost the performance of quantum computers.Research to develop new or better materials typically involves investigating properties that can be reliably measured with existing lab equipment, but this represents just a fraction of the properties that scientists could potentially probe in principle. Some properties remain effectively “invisible” because they are too difficult to capture directly with existing methods.Take electron-phonon interaction — this property plays a critical role in a material’s electrical, thermal, optical, and superconducting properties, but directly capturing it using…

As 2025 comes to a conclusion, nuclear risks seem more serious than ever before. Nuclear-armed states are modernising arsenals, spending is soaring past $100bn a year, and the casual invocation of nuclear threats and nuclear proliferation have returned to mainstream geopolitical discourse. Yet, ICAN is pushing back against this dark current, and building the resistance that will delegitimise nuclear weapons altogether. We didn’t end the nuclear arms race this year, but we did reshape some of the political conversation around it. ICAN, and its allies in governments, international institutions, along with our dynamic partners around the world are building up…

Session Wrap-Up, Vetoes, and HB 2100 The legislature returned Wednesday where they must proceed to pass an omnibus budget and a school finance bill to meet their constitutional obligations. Since adjournment, Governor Kelly vetoed several pieces of policy which both the House and Senate will consider this week for veto overrides.  The Climate + Energy Project was closely tracking the ESG Bill, HB 2100. The Governor did NOT veto the bill, nor did she sign it. It will become law without her signature, per announcement by her office on Monday.  While it’s too soon to determine if it’s a possibility, leadership intends…

Graphite is a key structural component in some of the world’s oldest nuclear reactors and many of the next-generation designs being built today. But it also condenses and swells in response to radiation — and the mechanism behind those changes has proven difficult to study.Now, MIT researchers and collaborators have uncovered a link between properties of graphite and how the material behaves in response to radiation. The findings could lead to more accurate, less destructive ways of predicting the lifespan of graphite materials used in reactors around the world.“We did some basic science to understand what leads to swelling and,…

Palantir’s Palestine: How AI Gods Are Building Our Extinction “Zionism is evil,” she says with the quiet certainty of someone who has spent a lifetime studying its fruits. “It is purely evil. It has created disasters, misery, atrocities, wars, aggression, unhappiness, insecurity for millions of Palestinians and Arabs. This ideology has no place whatsoever in a just world. None The machines are not coming for us. They are already here. And the men who control them have made their intentions terrifyingly clear. BettBeat Medi, Dec 26, 2025 But Zionism, in its current iteration, is not merely an ideology. It is a…

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MIT researchers have developed a technique that enables real-time, 3D monitoring of corrosion, cracking, and other material failure processes inside a nuclear reactor environment.This could allow engineers and scientists to design safer nuclear reactors that also deliver higher performance for applications like electricity generation and naval vessel propulsion.During their experiments, the researchers utilized extremely powerful X-rays to mimic the behavior of neutrons interacting with a material inside a nuclear reactor.They found that adding a buffer layer of silicon dioxide between the material and its substrate, and keeping the material under the X-ray beam for a longer period of time, improves…