NASA and the DoE aim to launch a lunar nuclear power system by 2030, supporting future Moon and Mars missions under a renewed ...

The waste could be used for nuclear fusion, say researchers. Although nuclear fission, which powers nuclear reactors, can provide plenty of energy, it also produces potentially dangerous radioactive ...

Ultra-pure nuclear fuel is quietly becoming one of the most strategic technologies in the energy transition, with the United ...

The future of American leadership in space will hinge on one factor: the ability to generate high power on orbit and on the surface of celestial bodies such as the moon. From a physics standpoint, ...

Parsons, Kansas, may be the site of a California startup’s first ever 1-mile-deep nuclear reactor — with support from county commissioners, both Republican Kansas U.S. senators and Democratic Gov.

Physicists at The University of Texas at Austin have designed a new system that, when fully developed, would use fusion to eliminate most of the transuranic waste produced by nuclear power plants. The ...

PARSONS, Kan. — A California company has announced plans to bring a first-of-its-kind nuclear reactor to Southeast Kansas that it hopes will be generating electrical power in the next two or three ...