More than 80 companies around the world are developing new kinds of nuclear reactors, hoping to get their hands on the tens ...

The facility, called Aalo-X, is being built next to the Idaho National Laboratory’s Materials and Fuels Complex in Idaho ...

Divisions within the EU persist, as its two largest economies remain at odds over nuclear power — France relies heavily on it, while Germany shut down its last reactor in 2023.

The step is aimed at supporting the testing of two advanced reactor designs and jumpstart a new domestic advanced fuel line ...

Idaho National Lab officials met with Texas-based Aalo Atomics on Thursday for the groundbreaking of Aalo-X, the nation's first experimental extra modular nuclear reactor.

If you try to launch or land a spacecraft anywhere close to another object on the lunar surface, that object will get ...

Specifically, highly valuable nuclear isotopes like uranium-238 and thorium-232 are the most critical starting components of breeder reactors.

Within the orders, Trump laid out his intention to quadruple domestic nuclear power production by 2050 through large traditional reactors and advanced nuclear projects, such as small modular reactors.

The idea of building a nuclear reactor as a power source on the Moon is not new. In 2022 Nasa issued three $5m contracts to companies to design a reactor.

NASA has set a 2030 deadline to build a 100-kilowatt nuclear reactor on the moon. It’s an ambitious but potentially achievable goal that could transform space exploration, experts tell WIRED.

Transportation Secretary and interim NASA Administrator Sean Duffy outlined the space agency’s fast-track plan to build a nuclear reactor on the moon on Tuesday. “We’re in a race to the moon ...

A new study recommends that the United States pursue rapid development of a space nuclear power system to keep pace with geopolitical rivals.