Bill Gates-backed nuclear startup TerraPower has been given the long-awaited green light to begin building nuclear components ...

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission on Wednesday approved its first construction permit for a commercial nuclear reactor ...

TerraPower’s project in Wyoming, which uses novel technology, is the first new commercial reactor to receive federal approval in nearly a decade.

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has approved construction of a next-generation Natrium reactor backed by Bill Gates' ...

Modules of a nuclear reactor left March Air Reserve Base on C-17 Globemaster III aircraft in the first airlift of its kind.

The NRC on March 4 authorized a construction permit for TerraPower's Kemmerer Power Station Unit 1—the first commercial ...

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has approved construction of TerraPower’s Natrium reactor in Wyoming, ...

The concrete stack stood 175 feet tall, much shorter than when the reactor was irradiating fuel to produce plutonium.

A woman from China, educated as a physicist, played a pivotal but largely overlooked role during World War II in rescuing Hanford’s historic B Reactor and launching the nuclear site in Eastern ...

The Pentagon and the Energy Department have airlifted a small nuclear reactor from California to Utah, demonstrating what ...

In a world first, the US Department of Defense (aka the Department of War) airlifted a complete 5-MW nuclear reactor using a C-17 Globemaster III transport from March Air Reserve Base, California to ...

Running a nuclear power plant isn’t an easy task, even with the level of automation available to a 1980s Soviet RBMK reactor.