A materials expert told Friends of ORNL that advanced nuclear reactors need 21st-century materials to withstand extreme ...

Researchers in Germany have recently unveiled ultra-resistant materials designed to withstand the extreme conditions inside future fusion reactors and protect the inner surface that directly faces the ...

X-energy, a Maryland-based nuclear technology firm, is betting that a reactor fueled by tiny, heat-resistant particles can eliminate the risk of a core meltdown entirely. That claim, if validated at ...

The NRC on March 4 authorized a construction permit for TerraPower's Kemmerer Power Station Unit 1—the first commercial ...

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Antares, a nuclear fission energy company developing microreactors for defense and space applications, today announced that the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has ...

A next-generation nuclear reactor left March Air Reserve Base, Calif., on Sunday in a first-of-its-kind airlift. The modules of the reactor were loaded aboard three C-17 Globemaster III aircraft, and ...

INDIANAPOLIS — On Tuesday, Nov. 4, First American Nuclear (FANCO) announced they were moving to Indiana and planning to build their first energy park using their EAGL-1 small modular reactors (SMRs).

TOKYO — Tokyo Electric Power on Wednesday restarted a reactor at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant after inspections were completed, its first such move since the Fukushima disaster in 2011.

In a world first, the US Department of Defense (aka the Department of War) airlifted a complete 5-MW nuclear reactor using a C-17 Globemaster III transport from March Air Reserve Base, California to ...

China plans to launch commercial operations at the world’s first small modular reactor (SMR) to generate nuclear energy as early as in the first half of 2026, according to the president of the China ...

OAK RIDGE, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Standard Nuclear, Inc., a reactor-agnostic producer of TRISO nuclear fuel, today announced it successfully received a critical shipment of High-Assay Low-Enriched ...