Thorium is often pitched as the “better nuclear fuel”—safer, cleaner, and more abundant than uranium. But is it truly a ...

Exploring the potential of nuclear-powered ships to clean up shipping and reduce carbon emissions. Alternative fuels, such as ...

US-based EnergyX has officially launched NUKE-it, a nuclear materials technology platform designed to tackle ...

The utility that operates the Fukushima plant that melted down in 2011 restarted a reactor at the world’s largest nuclear ...

Tokyo Electric Power Co. will shut down a reactor at its massive nuclear power plant in Japan’s Niigata prefecture to probe ...

Engineers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory are testing how insider ...

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, ...

If you have a redundant nuclear aircraft carrier lying around, you can give HGP Intelligent Energy a call. The Texas-based developer wants to repurpose the nuclear reactors used to power carriers to ...

Small nuclear reactors are pitched as cheaper, safer, faster and easier to finance than their conventional counterparts. Hype around them is building fast, but some experts warn it ignores fundamental ...

National Geographic Explorer Paolo Verzone provides a rare peek inside a stellarator, an experiment that aims to give the world near-limitless clean energy. When in operation, this space inside the ...

in "a stopped clock is right twice a day" level news, I read that orange clown is trying to forbid corporate ownership of homes. I hope he succeeds, though I'd never place a nickel on a bet that ...

An alternative to conventional uranium and plutonium reactors might be immune to the problems that have plagued the Fukushima nuclear power plant ...