Nuclear energy plays a big role in US power generation. But how many nuclear plants are there? We look at the scale of ...

The United States runs the largest nuclear power fleet on the planet, but even basic questions about how many plants are actually operating can produce different answers. Some counts focus on plant ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul plans to pursue perhaps the most ambitious development of nuclear power in America, setting a new goal to build five gigawatts of new nuclear capacity instead of just the one ...

To move nuclear energy forward in 2026, the Trump administration must deliver results—locking in reactor orders, accelerating fuel supply, and aligning hyperscaler demand with buildable projects. The ...

By Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON, Jan 28 (Reuters) - The U.S. said on Wednesday it is seeking input from U.S. states on any interest they have in hosting sites for developing the nuclear fuel lifecycle, ...

WASHINGTON, Jan 21 (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Energy ‌will ​seek interest from U.S. states as ‌soon as this week on storing nuclear waste in return for incentives to ​build nuclear reactors, a ...

Westinghouse Electric Co. has joined with ownership groups Cameco Corp. and Brookfield Asset Management in a partnership that would advance deployment of nuclear power technology across the U.S. The ...

The answer is more complicated than it used to be, as multiple federal agencies are responsible for new nuclear reactors. Each story invokes an alphabet soup of acronyms — DOE, NRC, DoD, LPO, PTC, PPA ...

With the return of nuclear energy to the public square and serious efforts among policymakers to commercialize a new generation of reactors in the United States and Europe, familiar claims about the ...

Three major nuclear reactor accidents—Three Mile Island (1979 in the United States), Chernobyl (1986 in Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union), and Fukushima Dai-ichi (2011 in Japan)—significantly ...