Nuclear power is rising to meet the demand for American energy. But building new reactors or even renewing licenses of ...

The United States is ravenous for new sources of power. The White has promised to quadruple nuclear power by 2050. To get ...

The Watts Bar Nuclear Plant produces over 1100MW of electricity each day, enough to power 1.3 million homes, but keeping the ...

The nuclear landscape is undergoing a transformation. While today’s emergency planning focuses on several hundred large, stationary nuclear power plants, the future may involve managing thousands of ...

The race is on to harness the near-infinite power of nuclear fusion—by building a star on Earth. And scientists are closer than you might think. Nuclear fusion in the sun occurs when hydrogen is ...

The Washington-based company backed by Bill Gates and NVIDIA could be the first to deploy a utility-scale, next-generation reactor in America.

Imagine this: Little black pellets made of uranium dioxide are stacked on top of each other in a silver, cylindrical rod. A rogue neutron hits a U-235 nucleus inside a pellet, causing the nucleus to ...

Stray dogs in Chernobyl reveal genetic changes after decades of radiation, offering unique clues about how life adapts in contaminated areas.

Canada’s Bruce Power announced on Monday that it has signed an agreement with Siemens Energy Canada to supply new high-pressure steam turbines for its four Bruce A nuclear power units. The upgrades ...

The U.S.’s last big nuclear-power project came in more than $16 billion over budget and seven years behind schedule. Now, the U.S. government wants to give the AP1000 another shot. President Trump is ...

The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) is accelerating the development of microreactors for military use, a push that developers say could lift the entire advanced nuclear sector. November 24 - The U.S.