As energy demands grow, next-generation fuels must deliver more power, last longer, and perform safely under extreme ...

As U.S. electricity demand rises and technology companies seek to build more and larger data centers to drive artificial ...

Not all nuclear accidents make global headlines, but SL-1 was significant for being the first to take American lives. On ...

(TNS) — The U.S. Department of Defense has given the go-ahead to build a new prototype nuclear micro-reactor at the 890-square-mile Idaho National Laboratory, west of Idaho Falls, Idaho. Project Pele ...

The Idaho National Lab joined with the U.S. Department of Energy and other entities Tuesday morning to celebrate the recent ...

A California company has announced plans to bring a first-of-its-kind nuclear reactor to Southeast Kansas that it hopes will be generating electrical power in the next two ...

Russian forces have fired upon another Ukrainian nuclear facility, according to reports. The invading army "shot the Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology," which is said to house nuclear ...

Nuclear fusion has gone from a scientists’ pipe dream to a technology attracting serious investment. Now one of the startups chasing this holy grail of energy production has published a series of peer ...

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The Magnox reprocessing plant at the Sellafield site in Cumbria has reprocessed the final box of used fuel from the UK's fast reactor programme being stored in the plant's ponds. Meanwhile, ...

I agree with many of the premises in Frank Morring, Jr.'s “High Hurdles” (AW&ST Aug. 6, p. 19). The last working breeder reactor in North America was in Canada and made medical isotopes. It shut down ...