The U.S. Department of Energy wants to exempt advanced nuclear power facilities from one of the nation's key environmental laws. The post To build nuclear faster, energy dept. pitches bypassing ...

Zap Energy’s three-meter reactor uses a lead-lithium liquid wall, cutting hardware needs and bringing cleaner, modular power closer.

The announcement comes just days after NPR revealed the administration had secretly rewritten safety and environmental ...

As the spallation neutron beam passes through the TRISO particle, some neutrons are absorbed by the uranium while most are scattered away. A neutron area detector collects the scattered neutrons, ...