The age of nuclear energy seemed to have come and gone, but the U.S. Department of Energy is determined to update and expand ...

The plant still produces roughly one-third of all electricity generated within CT, causing great interest and speculation ...

Lately, work on the next-gen nuclear fuel system has increased. Last week, US-based Standard Nuclear Inc. and French nuclear ...

Researchers are building the case for putting nuclear microreactors in all sorts of places. Developers will need to work with ...

Oklo Inc.'s Aurora powerhouse at Idaho National Laboratory will generate 75MWe of clean power using sodium-cooled ...

In a nuclear reactor, the combination of nuclear fuel and coolant—which is the substance used to both cool the fuel and transport the heat generated by it—used in its design determines what situations ...

Theoretically, there's no better, more practical source of reliable, carbon-free energy than the current generation of nuclear reactors. In practice, the theory holds water, but there are still a few ...

A remarkable study led by Oak Ridge National Laboratory answers a decades-old question in nuclear science: Do tiny pores in ...

The Trawsfynydd power station was equipped with a 392 MWe Magnox reactor and began generating electricity in 1965 before ceasing operations in 1991. All nuclear fuel was removed from the site by 1997.

"If you are interested in long-term space colonization or lunar bases or Mars bases, nuclear becomes quite quickly your only option," said James Walker.