A plan to place American-made reactors on a picturesque coastline has broad support in Poland — and in Washington — but the geopolitical calculations have run into local opposition. By Andrew ...

More than 400 nuclear power reactors in operation around the world currently use nuclear fission technology. The majority of these nuclear power reactors in operation are light water reactors.

History is, tragically, on their side. To be sure, nuclear power today is better understood than it was in 1979, when Three Mile Island’s Reactor Two experienced a partial core meltdown ...

Southern Company also reduced output from another nuclear reactor at its Edwin I. Hatch Nuclear Power Plant in Georgia after the storm damaged the area's broader power system, the company told ...

BANFF, Alta. —A public hearing slated for next week is the next milestone for what could be Canada’s first grid-scale small modular nuclear reactor (SMR). On Oct. 2, the Canadian Nuclear Safety ...

The Tennessee Valley Authority is finalizing the design of its small modular nuclear reactors, which received $150 million in additional funding from the TVA Board of Directors in August as the ...

At Rosatom’s Mining & Chemical Combine (GKhK – Gorno-Khimicheskom Kombinate) materials are being tested for a planned molten salt research reactor, which is expected to begin operation in 2030. The ...

Oklo, the nuclear energy company backed by Sam Altman, will begin preparatory work on a site in Idaho, where it could set up its first reactor as early as 2027. The Department of Energy (DOE ...

When the fuel is depleted, the entire reactor is shut down, loaded onto a truck, and returned to the factory for refueling or replacement with a new reactor. What sets the eVinci apart from other ...

Welcome to this installment of The Intelligence Brief… this week, the U.S. Department of Defense revealed its new plans to construct a transportable nuclear reactor under its new Project Pele program.

The company applied with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) in March 2020 to build and operate the INL reactor. This was the first combined license application ever accepted by the NRC ...

A once-shuttered nuclear plant could soon return to the grid. This article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review’s weekly climate newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Wednesday, sign ...