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American company drills a 1,830-meter hole in Kansas using oil well technology, places a nuclear reactor inside, and claims it will generate electricity without any cooling tower.

Noel Budeguer 08/06/2026 at 20:34

Nuclear Energy

Canada invests more than 2 billion dollars to upgrade an old nuclear laboratory and try to rival the world’s major atomic energy powers.

Noel Budeguer 30/05/2026 at 13:14

Nuclear Energy

Nuclear company backed by Bill Gates partners with Hyundai for next-generation 345 MW nuclear reactor

Fabio Lucas Carvalho 21/05/2026 at 12:44

Geopolitics

Russia is sailing all 8 nuclear icebreakers of its fleet simultaneously for the first time in history, as the Arctic freezes two weeks earlier than expected.

Douglas Avila 13/05/2026 at 06:02

Economy

With 39 years of halted construction and R$1 billion draining annually without generating a single watt, Angra 3 has become a ticking time bomb for Eletronuclear — while China put 20 new reactors into operation in the same period.

Douglas Avila 06/05/2026 at 09:32

Interesting facts

The United States spent US$ 15 billion to excavate 8 km of tunnels inside a mountain in the Nevada desert — the world’s safest nuclear waste repository was ready, but never received a single barrel of waste.

Douglas Avila 27/04/2026 at 19:23

Nuclear Energy

China has just commissioned the world’s first commercial mini-nuclear reactor — it is only 14 meters tall, generates energy for 526,000 homes, and prevents 880,000 tons of CO₂ per year.

Douglas Avila 23/04/2026 at 00:29

Nuclear Energy

South Korea held plasma at 100 million degrees for 102 seconds inside a nuclear fusion reactor — more than double the previous record and the most concrete step taken towards endless clean energy.

Douglas Avila 22/04/2026 at 19:23

Nuclear Energy

Rolls-Royce surprises the world with a billion-dollar plan that will create 8,000 jobs, ensure energy for over 60 years, and build 470 MW nuclear reactors in Wales to supply 3 million homes in the United Kingdom.

Romário Pereira de Carvalho 15/04/2026 at 22:15

Nuclear Energy

Fukushima Marks A Turning Point In Japan’s Energy Policy: After The Disaster, The Country Shut Down Its 54 Nuclear Reactors And, 15 Years Later, Only A Small Portion Have Returned To Operation

Noel Budeguer 11/03/2026 at 18:00

Nuclear Energy

How Japan Overcame The Nuclear Bomb And Now Houses Millions In Hiroshima, While Ukraine Lost Chernobyl?

Romário Pereira de Carvalho 08/03/2026 at 18:47

As obras de construção não relacionadas à usina começaram na unidade de Wyoming em junho de 2024. Imagem: TerraPower

Nuclear Energy

Bill Gates Receives Historic Approval to Build Giant 345 MW Nuclear Plant in the U.S. and Promises to Generate Up to 500 MW of Energy with Innovative Technology

Fabio Lucas Carvalho 05/03/2026 at 14:23

Nuclear Energy

American company drills a 1,830-meter hole in Kansas using oil well technology, places a nuclear reactor inside, and claims it will generate electricity without any cooling tower.

Canada invests more than 2 billion dollars to upgrade an old nuclear laboratory and try to rival the world’s major atomic energy powers.

Nuclear company backed by Bill Gates partners with Hyundai for next-generation 345 MW nuclear reactor

Russia is sailing all 8 nuclear icebreakers of its fleet simultaneously for the first time in history, as the Arctic freezes two weeks earlier than expected.

With 39 years of halted construction and R$1 billion draining annually without generating a single watt, Angra 3 has become a ticking time bomb for Eletronuclear — while China put 20 new reactors into operation in the same period.

The United States spent US$ 15 billion to excavate 8 km of tunnels inside a mountain in the Nevada desert — the world’s safest nuclear waste repository was ready, but never received a single barrel of waste.

China has just commissioned the world’s first commercial mini-nuclear reactor — it is only 14 meters tall, generates energy for 526,000 homes, and prevents 880,000 tons of CO₂ per year.

South Korea held plasma at 100 million degrees for 102 seconds inside a nuclear fusion reactor — more than double the previous record and the most concrete step taken towards endless clean energy.

Rolls-Royce surprises the world with a billion-dollar plan that will create 8,000 jobs, ensure energy for over 60 years, and build 470 MW nuclear reactors in Wales to supply 3 million homes in the United Kingdom.

Fukushima Marks A Turning Point In Japan’s Energy Policy: After The Disaster, The Country Shut Down Its 54 Nuclear Reactors And, 15 Years Later, Only A Small Portion Have Returned To Operation

How Japan Overcame The Nuclear Bomb And Now Houses Millions In Hiroshima, While Ukraine Lost Chernobyl?

Bill Gates Receives Historic Approval to Build Giant 345 MW Nuclear Plant in the U.S. and Promises to Generate Up to 500 MW of Energy with Innovative Technology

Libya built over 4,000 kilometers of underground pipelines to bring water from the Sahara to coastal cities in a project that the government itself called the Eighth Wonder of the World.

Desert sand, previously discarded for being too smooth for concrete, becomes an ecological brick in the United Arab Emirates, dispensing with Portland cement, curing at room temperature, and attempting to transform dunes useless for construction into raw material for a new arid engineering.

He transformed an abandoned plastic water tank into an underground house in the “hobbit hole” style, using only repurposed pallet wood, without heavy machinery or expensive labor.

Toyota launches “family hybrid van” with 7 or 8 seats, 1.8 hybrid engine, fuel consumption of up to 23.8 km/l, and a price equivalent to about R$ 104,000 without taxes, below the Tiggo 8 Pro Plug-in Hybrid sold in Brazil: meet the Noah Hybrid 2026 in Japan.

Chinese woman planted trees for decades while sand buried part of her house, received $5,000 from an American in 1999, and helped transform the desert into a forest of 8 million trees in China.

Described by astronauts as one of the most unlikely natural phenomena on Earth, the Okavango Delta spreads over up to 15,000 square kilometers in the middle of the desert and transforms Botswana into a living labyrinth of channels, islands, and flooded areas.

Almost 6,000 residents live concentrated along a single street nearly 9 km long in the interior of Poland. Houses form a continuous row, and behind them, narrow agricultural strips emerge, creating one of the most unusual rural patterns in Europe.