The U.S. space agency and the Department of Energy will work together to build a fission reactor on the lunar surface in the ...

NASA and the DOE partner to build a lunar nuclear reactor by 2030, providing the power needed for sustained space missions.

History shows that when American science and innovation come together, from the Manhattan Project to the Apollo Mission, our ...

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

Fireplaces are cozy until it’s time to shovel out the ashes. Nuclear power has the same problem: abundant, reliable energy ...

Niigata assembly votes to restart Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant Watershed moment in Japan's pivot back to nuclear energy Japan idled all reactors after 2011 Fukushima disaster Many residents ...

Japanese authorities have approved a decision to restart the world’s biggest nuclear power plant, which has sat dormant for more than a decade following the Fukushima nuclear disaster, in a pivotal ...

Deep Fission says it plans to install a nuclear reactor underground at an industrial park in southeast Kansas. State and local government leaders are on board. It's part of a national push for new ...

Texas-based ZettaJoule has secured formal support from Aramco Services Company for its high-temperature gas-cooled reactor (HTGR), a project designed to produce process heat reaching 950°C (1742°F), ...

Gautam Adani’s conglomerate is in talks with a northern Indian state to build a commercial nuclear energy project, giving the billionaire a head start in a sector India is opening up to private firms, ...

Adani Group, the conglomerate of Indian billionaire Gautam Adani, is in talks with the state government of India’s northern Uttar Pradesh state on a public-private partnership to build small modular ...

El Segundo, California-headquartered startup Radiant Nuclear is making big moves in its mission to bring its 1-MW microreactors to market. The company has just raised US$300 million to scale its ...