The executive order directed the Department of Energy to have three different reactor designs reach criticality in a bit over ...

Antares Nuclear’s microreactor at Idaho National Laboratory reached criticality, marking the first time a private company has ...

Military bases struggle to meet self-sufficiency power mandate amid growing interest in small nuclear reactors for backup ...

India, June 8 -- A small nuclear reactor developed by a private US company has achieved first criticality, a stepping stone ...

A committee vote in Washington last week quietly moved the United States closer to deploying nuclear reactors in the Western ...

The U.S. government is sitting on dozens of tons of weapons-grade plutonium. It's hoping startups can find a use for it.

The Trump administration has selected five companies to possibly take plutonium from Cold War stockpiles, DOE said.

The project is led by Wu Yican at the Institute of Nuclear Energy Safety Technology, who has described the system as a ...

The Trump administration is reportedly in talks with five companies to provide old plutonium to convert into fuel for future ...

Nuclear science isn't an easy thing, particularly building a working reactor, but there are a small handful of adolescents ...

Legislation approved by the Senate would strip supervisors in Arizona's rural counties from being able to use local rules to ...

Nuclear power may be the answer to our energy problems, but if that's true, why are we tossing out the fuel rods when they still have some life?