Many atomic nuclei have a magnetic field similar to that of Earth. However, directly at the surface of a heavy nucleus such ...

Scientists have built the first-ever thorium reactor. Thorium is both more easily accessible and less dangerous than ...

A US nuclear reactor has switched from Regular to Premium fuel with Southern Nuclear inserting four Lead Test Assemblies ...

China has completed the shipment of the final set of Correction Coil Incryostat Feeder components to the site of ITER (International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor) in the south of France. All ...

Sanger discusses U.S. rivalry with the other two great nuclear powers—Xi Jinping’s China and Vladimir Putin’s Russia—the choices that lie ahead, and what is at stake for the United States ...

This is one of those springs — the every-other-year spring when the Northwest’s only commercial nuclear power reactor, Columbia Generating Station near Richland, is shut down to have fresh ...

Nuclear reactors could someday power a chemical plant in Texas, making it the first with such a facility onsite. The factory, which makes plastics and other materials, could become a model for ...

A solution for achieving energy independence? Nuclear energy. Specifically, small modular reactors. These reactors are currently developed in partnership with the United States as a clean ...

Austin-based startup Aalo Atomics, which is developing small-scale nuclear reactors, is aiming to raise hundreds of millions of dollars over the next few years to buoy the effort. The company ...

Darlington, already home to an atomic power plant undergoing refurbishment to extend the life of four pressurized heavy-water fission reactors, has long been earmarked for new nuclear development. OPG ...

NTPC is exploring the possibility of building small modular reactors to replace its older thermal power plants, according to a tender document, the first such proposal since the country moved to open ...