China’s recent construction of a land-based nuclear reactor prototype signals its determination to build a nuclear-powered ...

To combat climate change, a lot of countries are spending billions on new and different kinds of nuclear reactors.

He’s done it for real. His memories of working at a Westinghouse Pressurized Water Reactor over 30 years ago are so sharp that he’s been building a nuclear reactor “simulator” running on ...

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 ...

The RELLIS Campus just keeps growing and has become a hotbed for leading-edge innovation. The work done on-campus pulls ...

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 ...

Japan’s nuclear watchdog on Wednesday formally disqualified a reactor in the country’s north-central region for a restart, ...

"Constructing the first quadrant is a big achievement." Scientists achieve major milestone in quest for nuclear fusion ...

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 ...

U.S. researchers have concluded that China has built a land-based prototype nuclear reactor to power future aircraft carriers ...

Japan appears eager to restart more nuclear reactors that were shut down after the Fukushima disaster, but many plant workers at the power companies have no experience operating such equipment ...

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 ...