While companies in the US chase smaller footprints, there are a lot of new large reactors going up in China. It’s a tale of two nuclear industries. In China, large reactors are coming together at a ...

The owner of the former Oyster Creek nuclear plant is considering building four small modular reactors on the site. These new reactors would double the power output of the original plant and are seen ...

Nuclear energy in the West took another step forward as the first privately developed, non-light-water reactor to go critical in the United States in more than 40 years reached a major milestone when ...

Antares Nuclear, Inc. announced Thursday that its Mark-0 microreactor achieved criticality at Idaho National Laboratory, becoming the first advanced reactor to reach the milestone under a U.S.

The first fueled criticality test of a microreactor in a military program offers early validation for reducing reliance on diesel during outages. A recent test at Idaho National Laboratory (INL) marks ...

Outside of those in the Department of Nuclear Engineering & Engineering Physics within the College of Engineering, few know that the University of Wisconsin is home to a one-megawatt TRIGA research ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. El Segundo-based Radiant, a company focused on developing a modular nuclear reactor, was selected by the ...

The Japan Atomic Energy Agency and Kazakhstan's National Nuclear Centre have agreed to a new phase of their joint core safety experiments of fast reactors, which focus on severe accident mitigation ...

KASHIWAZAKI, Japan — Japan has resumed operations at the world's largest nuclear power plant to help the country meet huge electricity demands during a global oil crisis, but the reboot highlights a ...

The scientific community has a plan for achieving fusion power. It involves getting a better understanding of how to control fusion in a tokamak-style reactor using the currently under construction ...

Heat waves, intensifying hurricane seasons and wildfires are all becoming more frequent. The driver of this devastation is climate change, the result of carbon pumped into the atmosphere as fossil ...