Dozens of people gathered at a meeting to hear from the company and share their opinions about the first of a new type of ...

The Pentagon and the Energy Department have airlifted a small nuclear reactor from California to Utah, demonstrating what they say is potential for the U.S. to quickly deploy nuclear power for ...

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has officially greenlit a critical safety blueprint for ...

At Argonne National Laboratory, researchers are trading in old-school approximations for raw supercomputing power, ...

The NRC on March 4 authorized a construction permit for TerraPower's Kemmerer Power Station Unit 1—the first commercial ...

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has granted approval to TerraPower to begin construction of a reactor in Wyoming. The project is the first new US commercial nuclear reactor in about a decade, ...

Washington State University (WSU) is marking 65 years since its nuclear reactor went active as the institution launches a ...

Developers behind Proto‑Town have filed early paperwork with state regulators that sketches out roughly 7,600 square feet of reactor space at a site on Mineral Springs Road, carrying an estimated ...

In the Canadian province of Saskatchewan, experts are wary of a new government initiative pushing for nuclear power. Electrical company SaskPower and the Saskatchewan government are looking into ...

The United States has taken a step toward a 21st-century renaissance in civilian nuclear power as the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has given the go-ahead for TerraPower's Natrium Gen IV reactor ...

That something is nuclear propulsion. Essentially, a nuclear rocket engine is a reactor that has hydrogen running through it as a propellant, which is heated to an astonishing 3,000 K (2,727 °C, 4,940 ...