Commercial nuclear reactors all work pretty much the same way. Atoms of a radioactive material split, emitting neutrons.

The nuclear energy industry is seeing a resurgence in global interest as governments, utilities, and tech giants seek to meet soaring electricity demand with around-the-clock, carbon-free power.

Steve Zinkle will speak on “Materials for Nuclear Power Applications” at noon Tuesday, Jan. 13, to Friends of ORNL. His talk is open to the public.

The United States is no longer talking abstractly about nuclear power in space. It is now working to place a working fission ...

Companies like Kairos Power are building new types of reactors with the encouragement of the Trump administration, but their ...

Washington spent much of the 1970s trying to become a center for nuclear power, with plans for five huge fission reactors at Richland and Satsop. Then came cost overruns, construction problems, and ...

The United States is engaged in an existential competition with China for superiority in Artificial Intelligence, AI. This technology promises to revolutionize economic activity and to determine the ...

BERKELEY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Deep Fission, an advanced nuclear energy company redefining the industry by placing small modular pressurized water reactors in boreholes a mile underground, today ...

A North Carolina-headquartered developer of small modular nuclear power plants announced it has an agreement with the U.S.

NASA’s push to install a nuclear reactor on the Moon by around 2030 is not a sci‑fi stunt or a vanity project. It is a ...

Construction at the site of Helion's planned fusion power plant in Malaga, Washington, in Chelan County. The company has a power purchase agreement to provide energy from the facility to Microsoft by ...