The US Department of Energy has announced its initial selection of 11 advanced reactor projects for the Nuclear Reactor Pilot Program, which aims to see at least three of them achieve criticality in ...

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 first phase of the dismantling of the reactor vessel at Italy's Garigliano nuclear power plant has been completed with the removal of contaminated metal components from the deflector, the upper ...

First demonstration molten salt reactor to be built in Oak Ridge, Tenn. by 2027 will produce "affordable nuclear heat,” said engineer-developer Kairos Power. Engineer and advanced nuclear power ...

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.

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Kairos Power is the first nuclear startup to begin construction on a modular reactor, but its design relies on a rare fuel source. Second in an occasional series on companies leading the way on small ...

ATLANTA — U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm says more nuclear reactors as she celebrated the completion of reactors 3 and 4 at Plant Vogtle. Granholm said the United States needs 98 more ...