Tucked into a narrow gulch in the upper reaches of the Piceance Basin is a collection of stainless steel pipes, thick power cables, pump jacks and other arcane machinery that Shell Oil hopes will ...

Nuclear energy is being proposed as an alternative to gas-powered electricity as a heat source for in situ shale oil recovery in the US. Nuclear engineer Charles W. Forsberg of the US Department of ...

Technological advances in producing and refining liquid fuels in situ using high-temperature heat from nuclear reactors can resolve two major problems—dependence on oil from unstable areas of the ...