Not all nuclear accidents make global headlines, but SL-1 was significant for being the first to take American lives. On January 3, 1961, three men died instantly when a small experimental reactor ...

A stellarator is still a donut shape, but extended and twisted, with different pros and cons.

The ORNL study confirms that these imperfections do not disturb the atomic vibrations within the graphite, which are ...

Nuclear fusion promises a green and infinitely renewable supply of energy—if we can harness it. Fusion happens all the time ...

Georgia Power has begun splitting atoms to produce heat inside the second of its two new nuclear reactors at Plant Vogtle, a key milestone toward completion of the long-delayed project. The step known ...

Harmony was in the air as the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy met last week to hear AEC’s new program to develop U.S. atomic power. After the long battles between Lewis Strauss and ...

The dream of the ancient alchemists may come true as Marathon Fusion announces that its tokamak fusion reactor technology can turn common mercury into gold as a byproduct of fusion operations in ...

General Fusion announced on Tuesday that it had successfully created plasma, a superheated fourth state of matter required for fusion, inside a prototype reactor. The milestone marks the beginning of ...

Oklo Inc., a nuclear energy startup, plans to switch on at least one of its three reactors in a US program by mid-2026, ...

For starters, NuScale Power currently has an $11 billion market cap, yet the company has only generated $56 million in revenue over the past 12 months. In other words, investors buying the stock at ...

Researchers led by Professor Yi-Tsu Chan at National Taiwan University have created a giant molecular cage that mimics nature ...