On the shores of Lake Michigan at the Palisades nuclear plant, Paul Schultz pushes a button to artificially trip the reactor ...

A Japanese nuclear reactor that restarted last week for the first time in more than 13 years after it survived a massive ...

If you’ve ever wanted to operate your own nuclear reactor, you probably aren’t going to get one in your backyard shop. However, thanks to the University of Manchester, you can get a simulated ...

Nicknamed “Chicago Pile-1,” the world’s first nuclear reactor kicked off the Atomic Age and has a complicated legacy, including the rise of both nuclear energy and nuclear weapons. As physicists came ...

The first generation of nuclear power plants were built in the 1950s and 1960s and were based on light water reactor technology. These reactors use water as a coolant and neutron moderator ...

Four Texas A&M University academics are leading the way in nuclear material research to help develop safer, more advanced ...

TOKYO -- A Japanese nuclear reactor which survived a massive 2011 earthquake and tsunami that badly damaged the nearby Fukushima nuclear power plant was restarted Tuesday for the first time since ...

A robot tasked with searching the wreckage inside Fukushima Daiichi's Unit 2 reactor has retrieved a sample of melted nuclear fuel.

In a high case scenario, the IAEA’s projection is that nuclear energy capacity will more than double by 2050, from 371 GW (e) in 2022 to 890 GW (e) by 2050, with only around 10% of this increase ...

turning to energy startups to build nuclear reactors to meet the energy demands of artificial intelligence. This ranges from Amazon (AMZN), Microsoft (MSFT), and Alphabet's Google (GOOG ...