A new nuclear reactor design skips fuel entirely—eliminating meltdown risk while testing a safer future for nuclear power.

Using lead as a coolant could save us from a nuclear catastrophe.

America’s only fully digital nuclear reactor has entered a new phase of operation. Engineers at ...

A typical nuclear reactor is powered by fuel rods filled with uranium. These use fission to split atoms and release energy. Control rods are inserted and retracted to absorb neutrons and regulate the ...

NASA announced the results of its Kilopower Reactor Using Stirling Technology (KRUSTY) experiment, during a news conference Wednesday at its Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio. The Kilopower ...

Canada finished a major Bruce Power reactor overhaul seven months early after replacing eight giant steam generators.

Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation, Luciana Santos, was present for a ceremony to mark the start of infrastructure works for the construction of the Brazilian Multipurpose Reactor in Iperó ...

Editor’s note: On Oct. 16, 2024, about 100 Tri-Cities area leaders and people who worked to preserve Hanford’s historic B Reactor as part of the Manhattan Project National Historical Park gathered at ...

INDIANAPOLIS — On Tuesday, Nov. 4, First American Nuclear (FANCO) announced they were moving to Indiana and planning to build their first energy park using their EAGL-1 small modular reactors (SMRs).

Outside of those in the Department of Nuclear Engineering & Engineering Physics within the College of Engineering, few know that the University of Wisconsin is home to a one-megawatt TRIGA research ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Nuclear reactors can be an enormous hazard. The Chernobyl nuclear disaster is so famous that it almost goes without saying, and Japan was so shaken ...