Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dianne Plummer is an Energy Consultant and Certified Energy Manager. As the world races to combat climate change, the debate over ...

Nuclear power plants worldwide generated more electricity in 2025 than in any previous year on record, the International Energy Agency confirmed in its Electricity 2026 report. Combined with surging ...

One of the most critical metrics for evaluating energy sources is the Levelized Cost of Electricity — which is a measure of the total cost of building and operating a power plant over its lifetime and ...

Innovative small modular reactors, floating nuclear plants, and microreactors offer potential routes to decarbonization that many countries are embracing. However, these emerging technologies elevate ...

If all goes to plan, Virginia will be the site of the world’s first grid-scale nuclear fusion power plant, able to harness this futuristic clean power and generate electricity from it by the early ...

Growing worldwide energy demand and other factors have shifted the calculus, but hurdles still lie ahead. By Brad Plumer Reporting from the COP29 climate summit in Baku, Azerbaijan For years at global ...

Nuclear energy hasn’t just been making a comeback in recent months. According to many experts, including US Secretary of Energy Chris Wright, we’re heading for a “long-awaited American nuclear ...

This was originally published in the India File newsletter, which is issued every Tuesday. Sign up here to get latest news from India and how it matters to the world. India has talked for decades ...

On November 24, the Niigata Prefecture approved the partial restart of the seven-unit Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant—the world’s largest, with a 7,965-megawatt-electric capacity—the first time ...