NASA announced plans to build a nuclear reactor on the moon on Tuesday, in an attempt to stay ahead of China and Russia in a new space race. The goal is to have the reactor built before 2030, a ...

In the shadow of a service outage that affected millions of users, outside of Richland, Washington, internet commerce giant Amazon is building the first of a series of modular nuclear power stations ...

Factories could one day produce and ship small nuclear reactors across the country. U.S. Department of Energy Office of Nuclear Energy You might imagine nuclear power plants as behemoth facilities ...

In 2005 the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission renewed the CT nuclear reactors’ licenses, allowing them to continue ...

The first space race was about flags and footprints. Now, decades later, landing on the Moon is old news. The new race is to build there, and doing so hinges on power. While it might feel like a ...

AI’s power hunger is driving a U.S. electricity boom, forcing tech giants to seek stable, low-carbon energy sources beyond intermittent renewables. Nuclear power—both conventional and modular—is ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Author: Michelle L.D. Hanlon, University of Mississippi The first space race was about ...

The U.S. Army announced this week that it is launching a program to power domestic military bases with small nuclear reactors ...

Nuclear technology company Oklo Inc. broke ground on its Idaho National Laboratory (INL) for its first Aurora powerhouse, ushering in a new era of nuclear energy in the U.S. Aurora powerhouse, the ...