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

A hybrid of two popular nuclear fusion reactor designs could lead to more efficient power plants. Magnetic confinement fusion reactors use magnetic fields to squeeze a cloud of charged ions, called a ...

French startup Stellaria is asking regulators for permission to build an experimental fast-neutron molten salt reactor that ...

Imagine a future where energy is not only abundant but also clean, reliable, and adaptable to the ever-changing demands of modern life. It’s a vision that feels both urgent and out of reach as we ...

HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania (AP) — With the promise of newer, cheaper nuclear power on the horizon, U.S. states are vying to position themselves to build and supply the industry’s next generation as ...

The next-generation collaboration will leverage advanced laser enrichment technology to build a scalable U.S. nuclear fuel supply for advanced reactors With more than a dozen advanced reactor designs ...

Interest in nuclear power has been reignited by the power needs of AI data centers. Small Modular Reactors could be a faster and lower cost source of nuclear power. Oklo's advanced reactor design ...

Matthew Weathered’s THETA experiment offers high fidelity data for nuclear reactor computer code development within one of METL’s 71-cm diameter test vessels at Argonne. All U.S. nuclear reactors, ...

Reactor radiation-shielding optimization methods are proposed by combining many-objective evolutionary algorithms with particle-transport calculation software that can optimize the reactor ...

German startup Proxima Fusion — whose team includes engineers from MIT, Google, SpaceX, and McLaren — has unveiled a fusion energy reactor design it believes offers the quickest route to commercially ...