Small nuclear reactors are pitched as cheaper, safer, faster and easier to finance than their conventional counterparts. Hype around them is building fast, but some experts warn it ignores fundamental ...

A reactor at the world’s largest nuclear power plant that restarted for the first time since the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster is now being shut down again due to a glitch that occurred hours after ...

Commercial nuclear reactors all work pretty much the same way. Atoms of a radioactive material split, emitting neutrons.

Over 50 small reactors generating up to 500 megawatts of electricity have been built over the past half-century. Their median build time has been eight years. By contrast, large reactors have been ...

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

Oak Ridge, Tennessee, could be home to a molten salt reactor once again if Google-backed Kairos Power has its way.… The small modular reactor startup, along with the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), ...

At a time of increasing demand for sustainable electricity across the world, scientists are focusing to develop small nuclear reactors. To make innovations safer, researchers have turned to a new ...

A lunar base powered by nuclear energy: this is NASA's new goal. The American space agency is currently working on installing a reactor on the Moon by 2030, a project that could reconfigure ...

While the energy crisis has a well-known public policy dimension, it also threatens the capabilities of the US military if and when a crisis should break out in East Asia. Artificial intelligence has ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Factories could one day produce and ship small nuclear reactors across the country. U.S. Department of Energy Office of Nuclear ...

Commercial fusion power plants may be cheaper and easier to build thanks to a breakthrough by TAE Technologies that allows reactors to generate their own containment fields without the need for ...