The US Department of Energy (DOE) has officially greenlit a critical safety blueprint for ...

At Argonne National Laboratory, researchers are trading in old-school approximations for raw supercomputing power, ...

Experts at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory and other national laboratories are looking more closely at passive safety systems, which will be used prevalently in the ...

Engineers at the Idaho National Laboratory have completed a successful test campaign of a coolant system for nuclear microreactors that have the potential to launch the world into the next energy age.

In a world first, the US Department of Defense (aka the Department of War) airlifted a complete 5-MW nuclear reactor using a C-17 Globemaster III transport from March Air Reserve Base, California to ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Department of Energy said on Tuesday it has made an initial selection of 11 projects for a pilot program seeking to develop high-tech test nuclear reactors and get at ...

How do you control a nuclear space propulsion system? Very carefully. To help with this, the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has built a simulated nuclear reactor test bed to develop the engines ...

The NRC on March 4 authorized a construction permit for TerraPower's Kemmerer Power Station Unit 1—the first commercial ...

TerraPower officially received a construction permit Monday for its first-of-a-kind Natrium reactor in Kemmerer. “This demonstrates advanced ...

The Pentagon and the Energy Department have airlifted a small nuclear reactor from California to Utah, demonstrating what they say is potential for the U.S. to quickly deploy nuclear power for ...

Oak Ridge is becoming America's nuclear energy core, with TVA and Kairos Power building advanced reactors to provide power.