In perhaps a matter of weeks, Bill Gates-backed TerraPower expects to receive federal permits to build the nuclear components ...

The United States is about to ship some of the world’s most closely watched nuclear fuel to a private company, a move that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The logo of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission is shown on the podium at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Staion in Carlsbad ...

A new portable reactor based on a solid oxide fuel cell solves thermal management and safety issues, as reported by ...

Scientists have built the first-ever thorium reactor. Thorium is both more easily accessible and less dangerous than uranium—the most common fission fuel. The system also uses molten salt instead of ...

Tests carried out on high burnup fast reactor fuel as part of a collaboration between the USA and Japan are the first of their kind carried out in more than 20 years, and will provide crucial new data ...

The federal government is sending enriched uranium to a nuclear company that aims to build next-gen salt-cooled reactors in ...

Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. said early Friday that it has shut down a reactor at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power ...

Theoretically, there's no better, more practical source of reliable, carbon-free energy than the current generation of nuclear reactors. In practice, the theory holds water, but there are still a few ...

The race to build a resilient U.S. nuclear fuel supply chain gained speed Tuesday. Two nuclear companies — Tennessee startup Standard Nuclear and French nuclear giant Framatome — announced a joint ...

Asia has become the global fulcrum of nuclear energy growth, counting 145 operational reactors and 45 under construction in the region. The enviable growth of the continent and the subsequent capacity ...