The U.S. Department of Energy has opened a fast-track pathway for private companies to test advanced nuclear reactors on government sites, setting an explicit policy target of at least three reactors ...

Nations are racing to deploy advanced reactors for cleaner, more secure nuclear energy, which ...

Lockheed Martin's concept for a fission surface power (FSP) system on the surface of the moon. Credit: Lockheed Martin WASHINGTON — A new NASA directive to accelerate development of a nuclear reactor ...

From molten salt to TRISO fuel, here’s how technological advancements could upend an old power technology. Commercial nuclear reactors all work pretty much the same way. Atoms of a radioactive ...

China has built one of the world's first small modular nuclear reactors, also dubbed 'mini nukes' [Getty Images] The UK's first small nuclear power stations will be built on the Isle of Anglesey in ...

Mikhail Baryshnikov, Head of Innovative Products Development Department for Russia’s Tenex and former chairman of World Nuclear Association’s Used Nuclear Fuel working group, explains what a closed ...

Unit 2 reactor is seen at Luminant's Comanche Peak Nuclear Power Plant near Glen Rose, Texas, Wednesday, March 23, 2011. (Tom Fox/The Dallas Morning News) Tom Fox/Staff Photographer / THE DALLAS ...