Gold and other heavy elements are born in some of the universe’s most violent events—but scientists still struggle to understand the nuclear steps that create them. Now, nuclear physicists have ...

The US Department of Energy has greenlit the safety basis for the MARVEL microreactor, clearing the path for its first experiments.

The Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station has signed an agreement with advanced small modular reactor company ZettaJoule to explore building a very-high temperature modular reactor that could ...

Small, possibly portable, nuclear reactors that can’t melt down are moving toward reality in the United States, with what may be the first two coming online or beginning construction this year. The US ...

A next-generation nuclear reactor left March Air Reserve Base, Calif., on Sunday in a first-of-its-kind airlift. The modules of the reactor were loaded aboard three C-17 Globemaster III aircraft, and ...

HILL AIR FORCE BASE, Utah—The U.S. military airlifted a modern nuclear reactor on Sunday for the first time, part of President Trump’s push to deploy nuclear power across the United States. Three C-17 ...

The Department of War on Sunday transported a next-generation nuclear reactor aboard a C-17 from California to Utah, advancing President Donald Trump’s executive order to modernize America’s nuclear ...

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) aims to jumpstart the development and deployment of new advanced reactors this year by bypassing onerous and largely useless environmental assessments. In a May ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Since several of its reactors exploded, water that has seeped into the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant merged with radioactive sludge and ...

WASHINGTON — NASA and the Department of Energy have agreed to work together on development of nuclear reactors for the moon as industry awaits the release of a final call for proposals. NASA and DOE ...

On the sandy shores of Lake Michigan, set against a backdrop of thick forest, a sharp-angled grey concrete building could be the face of an American nuclear renaissance. The Palisades nuclear plant, ...

TOKYO — Tokyo Electric Power on Wednesday restarted a reactor at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant after inspections were completed, its first such move since the Fukushima disaster in 2011.