The United States wants a reactor on the moon by 2030. A Russian-Chinese alliance is working on one for 2036. Some leading scientists say the danger is great.

Engineering and construction giant Bechtel Corp. is warning of up to 200 layoffs at its Reston headquarters after an apparent falling-out with the developer of a nuclear power project in Wyoming.

Holtec Nuclear suspended its $900M IPO as peers Standard Nuclear and X-Energy trade 21% and 37% below their listing prices amid AI bubble fears.

On the morning of September 11, 2001, I was preparing to leave my Washington, DC apartment for an appointment when the phone rang. It was just after 9 AM.   On the line was my boss at the time, Pau...

Oklo asked the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to order the PJM Interconnection to reinstate its 750-MW, mixed-technology project. PJM reportedly told Oklo that it never showed the project could ...

WASHINGTON — The Department of the Army is announcing today that the Janus Program has selected five nuclear energy vendors, and five initial locations.

Oversight agencies suddenly face pressure to rapidly assess a range of relatively untested reactor designs.

A Wyoming town is building a new nuclear plant backed by Bill Gates as coal jobs fade and residents remain split.

The Paks nuclear plant, located around 50 miles south of the capital Budapest, could face a shutdown for the first time in its 44 years of service due to a lack of water for cooling.

The final report of a task force studying small nuclear plants did not close the door on future use, but concluded that the technology wouldn’t address near-term power shortages.

The Bethe-Feynman formula has proven useful for estimating the explosive yields of simple fission weapons. However, derivations of the Bethe-Feynman formula found in the open literature utilize approx...

There was a transformer fire on the Seabrook, New Hampshire nuclear power plant property. The nuclear facility was not impacted.

Deployable Energy’s demonstration reactor, Unity, successfully achieved criticality, marking the fulfillment of President Trump’s executive order directing DOE to authorize three advanced reactors wit...

A program initiated by the Trump administration has allowed small companies to rush their testing of several new nuclear reactor designs. Some worry that safety is being compromised.