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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright testifies during a budget hearing in front of the House Committee on Appropriations Subcommittee ...

U.S. Air Force airmen and civilian contractors prepare a containerized nuclear power reactor for airlift aboard a C-17 Globemaster III at March Air Reserve Base, California, Feb. 13, 2026. (U.S. Air ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Energy Department says a small nuclear reactor under development at a national lab has reached a crucial milestone that could allow it to produce electricity within a few years.

Just over a year ago, the Trump Administration issued an executive order meant to accelerate the development of nuclear power in the US. While an entire startup ecosystem has developed around the use ...

Japan's government is making long-term plans for replacing up to a dozen nuclear reactors by 2050, to secure its electricity supply, with two to five of these to be rebuilt by the 2040s, the country's ...

Forward-looking: Engineers in China are testing a nuclear reactor designed to move with the load it serves, rather than sit on a fixed grid connection. The prototype, developed at the Hefei Institutes ...

America's nuclear boondoggle may be coming to an end, as the Department of Energy looks to deploy a new generation of nuclear reactors. Although the U.S operates 98 gigawatts of nuclear capacity, high ...

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. Last August U.S. Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy, who at the time was also the acting administrator of NASA, ...