The federal government has agreed to conduct an extensive environmental study of a nuclear weapons production effort that includes a multibillion dollar pit factory at the Savannah River Site in ...

Small, transportable and mass-produced “microreactors” are seen as part of the future of nuclear power. Westinghouse ...

NuScale Power (SMR -1.54%) is not an investment for the faint of heart. Indeed, it is losing money today and will probably ...

Deep beneath a remote Welsh valley lie secret tunnels used in the fight against Hitler and then used to develop nuclear ...

The state is aggressively pushing to deploy the next generation of atomic energy that would power big industrial operations.

The U.S. currently has no permanent disposal facility for that radioactive waste, the NRC says. That means all waste from nuclear reactors — including SMRs and microreactors that could be built in ...

With a new nuclear reactor in Arizona now a possibility, a grassroots group is planning a protest in Tucson on the 14th anniversary of the start of the Fukushima accident in Japan. The Nuclear ...

Factory fabricated: All components of a microreactor ... It aims at initiating technical exchange discussions with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission [NRC] in early 2025 on Odin's design.

Even new, advanced nuclear reactors, which have smaller factory-built designs meant to reduce costs, have faced budget overruns and missed deadlines, which analysts say have spooked power ...

There isn’t a microreactor tested and ready for market yet, but Westinghouse's eVinci is in line. A 12-foot-tall slice into the dark gray core of a model nuclear microreactor looms on the shop ...