More than 110 countries and countless companies have pledged to reach net-zero emissions by 2050, but can they get there with existing technologies? Probably not. But the net-zero equation is complex.

Nuclear energy is regaining investor an.d media attention, as more than 20 countries have pledged to triple their nuclear capacity by 2050. Scientific breakeven - also known as "Q>1”—is the ratio of ...

Globally, nuclear power accounts for roughly 10% of electricity generation. In some countries, such as France, this figure is nearly 70%. Big tech companies such as Google are also turning to nuclear ...

The prospect of fusion power plants is coming closer. But what are the lessons fusion can learn from nuclear fission in areas such as regulation, planning, public approval and finance? Ahead of the UK ...

Entities working on compact fusion also claim that their technology will avert the major environmental impacts of global warming, expected by 2050.11 The positive climate mitigating impact of such ...

Clean and sustainable nuclear energy may sound like a washed up, post-war dream, but the modern reality of this power source is much more complicated. For one, nuclear energy in the coming decades ...

While nuclear fission derives energy from splitting atomic nuclei, nuclear fusion does so by joining them, releasing energy in the process. Though both atomic reactions produce energy by modifying ...

A Seattle-area startup best known for chasing one of the hardest problems in physics has decided it cannot wait for fusion alone. Zap Energy announced in June 2026 that it will begin pursuing ...