Using the five megawatt reactor would mean US forces could operate without fear that an enemy might cut fuel supplies.

The Pentagon and the Energy Department have airlifted a small nuclear reactor from California to Utah, demonstrating what ...

A small nuclear test reactor arrived in Utah aboard U.S. military aircraft. It won’t power homes, but state and federal leaders say it signals a new chapter for Utah’s energy future. Here’s what to ...

Nations are racing to deploy advanced reactors for cleaner, more secure nuclear energy, which ...

Founded by Bill Gates, TerraPower is one of the nuclear industry’s leading startups. But the fiery history of its cooling technology is raising alarms.

Three major nuclear reactor accidents—Three Mile Island (1979 in the United States), Chernobyl (1986 in Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union), and Fukushima Dai-ichi (2011 in Japan)—significantly ...

China has built one of the world's first small modular nuclear reactors, also dubbed 'mini nukes' [Getty Images] The UK's first small nuclear power stations will be built on the Isle of Anglesey in ...

Idaho National Laboratory has produced what the Department of Energy describes as the first batch of fuel for the world’s first fast-spectrum molten salt reactor, clearing one of the longest-standing ...

As America’s energy demands grow exponentially, the country won’t be able to keep up without more nuclear power. For decades, ...