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In 1955, the town of Arco, Idaho drew every watt of its electricity for about an hour from an experimental fast breeder called BORAX-III sitting out on the desert flats, becoming the first community on Earth to light its streetlamps entirely with atoms splitting a few miles away.

By Nuclear Power Daily Editorial Team · Jul 27, 2026

The Oklo uranium deposit in Gabon ran as a natural nuclear reactor roughly 1.7 billion years ago, cycling on and off in three-hour pulses for hundreds of thousands of years before the first cells with a nucleus even existed on Earth.

By Nuclear Power Daily Editorial Team · Jul 22, 2026

A single cumulus cloud weighs roughly 500 tonnes, about the mass of 100 elephants, and it floats because the warm air holding those water droplets is still less dense than the cooler, heavier air pressing up beneath it.

By Nuclear Power Daily Editorial Team · Jul 21, 2026

Scripps scientists want to add a tenth planetary boundary to the list — and the one they're proposing is already breaking, quietly, in every ocean, lake, and river on Earth

By Nuclear Power Daily Editorial Team · Jul 21, 2026