The United States is chasing a new age of nuclear power that banks on domestic production of reactor fuel like X-energy is ...

Westinghouse is partnering with Google Cloud to use AI for faster, more efficient nuclear reactor construction and operation ...

President Trump on Friday signed several executive orders to help clear the way for more nuclear power development and, in the words of one of his top officials, "usher in the American nuclear ...

A nuclear reactor controls nuclear fission reaction to produce steam to drive turbines linked to generators to create electricity.

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Underground on Purdue University’s campus is the only nuclear reactor in Indiana. Although used just for research purposes — the total energy the reactor generates powers about ...

The Trump administration wants to streamline the nuclear reactor permitting process in order to provide clean power for industrial and military purposes. Advocates fear the orders weaken ...

ITER engineers expect their tokamak reactor to generate 500 megawatts (Mw) of fusion power using just 50 Mw of input heating–compared with a nuclear fission reactor ’s roughly 1,000 Mw of ...

PUR-1 has started serving as the nation’s first reactor test bed to help the industry figure out how digital communication, AI tools and cybersecurity methods could work at a larger scale for ...

Taiwan started to shut its final nuclear reactor on Saturday as a 40-year operating license expired, in a move that could threaten the island’s energy security and climate goals.

The Tennessee Valley Authority submitted a construction permit application to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission for a small, modular nuclear reactor.

Entergy will consider adding up to 275 megawatts (MW) of capacity through uprates at its existing nuclear plants, the utility told investors this week.

Japan’s atomic watchdog cleared the first nuclear restart since 2021, a shot in the arm for the government’s effort to increase power generation from the energy source and reduce dependence on ...