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

NASA and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) have reignited efforts to develop a small nuclear reactor for deployment on the ...

Over 50 small reactors generating up to 500 megawatts of electricity have been built over the past half-century. Their median build time has been eight years. By contrast, large reactors have been ...

NASA first announced that it would put a reactor on the moon “within a decade” in 2021. By 2024, the agency said the target ...

At a crucial moment for climate change, these technologies show us where we're heading. Happy New Year! I know it’s a bit ...

You might imagine nuclear power plants as behemoth facilities spanning hundreds of acres. Nuclear microreactors, by contrast, could sit on land the size of a football field and power a whole town.

Commercial fusion power plants may be cheaper and easier to build thanks to a breakthrough by TAE Technologies that allows reactors to generate their own containment fields without the need for ...

While the energy crisis has a well-known public policy dimension, it also threatens the capabilities of the US military.

Small modular reactor startups are betting that mass manufacturing will help them bring costs down. But are they ...

Recently, another reactor in France reported a major tungsten breakthrough: its toroidal tokamak, clad in tungsten, ...

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

In the shadow of a service outage that affected millions of users, outside of Richland, Washington, internet commerce giant Amazon is building the first of a series of modular nuclear power stations ...