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

The rewrite was done to speed up the construction of a new generation of nuclear reactors. Critics warn it could compromise safety and public trust.

While Russia and Ukraine continue targeting each other's energy infrastructure amid their war, backup systems are critical ...

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

The changes are akin to ‘taking a wrecking ball’ to safety and security regulations, an expert told NPR.

International regulators are increasingly cooperating to evaluate the safety of new small modular reactor ...

The reactor had been offline for over a decade, and the company wanted to fire it back up, but the reactor had different ...

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

When you think of a US Nuclear accident, you probably think of Three Mile Island. However, there have been over 50 accidents of varying severity in the US, with few direct casualties. (No one died ...

A huge nuclear deal announced by the Trump administration earlier this week provides a multi-billion-dollar incentive for the U.S. government to issue permits and approvals for new Westinghouse ...

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 ...

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 ...