In May, President Trump sat in the Oval Office flanked by executives from America’s nuclear power industry. “It’s a hot industry. It’s a brilliant industry,” the president said from behind the ...

After years in the wilderness, it’s a good time to be a nuclear startup. “For the first half a decade that I was telling people I was doing nuclear, I had to convince them, ‘Hey, here’s why nuclear is ...

National Geographic Explorer Paolo Verzone provides a rare peek inside a stellarator, an experiment that aims to give the world near-limitless clean energy. When in operation, this space inside the ...

Idaho National Laboratory has launched full-scale production of enriched fuel salt for the world's first test of a molten chloride salt fast reactor - technology that could be deployed as soon as the ...

Steady nuclear energy is in high demand this time of year. As many of us are ramping up with shopping, baking, and planning for the holiday season, nuclear power plants are also getting ready for one ...

The federal government is sending the nation's largest public utility a $400 million grant to propel the development of an advanced nuclear reactor in East Tennessee as power demand rises. The ...

As U.S. electricity demand rises and technology companies seek to build more and larger data centers to drive artificial intelligence systems, the main question arising is how to generate all that ...

Two more nuclear companies have been awarded large grants by the Trump administration. The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) and Holtec will each receive $400 million from the Department of Energy to ...

Associate Professor of Construction Management; Director of Research, Applied Research Center, Florida International University As U.S. electricity demand rises and technology companies seek to build ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Leonel Lagos, Florida International University (THE CONVERSATION) As U.S. electricity ...

China’s Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics (SINAP) in November reported it had achieved thorium-to-uranium fuel conversion inside an operating molten salt reactor (MSR). The milestone provides the ...

China’s experimental thorium molten salt reactor has reportedly achieved sustained thorium-to-uranium fuel conversion, marking a major scientific first. The breakthrough could ease China’s dependence ...