Small, possibly portable, nuclear reactors that can’t melt down are moving toward reality in the United States, with what may be the first two coming online or beginning construction this year. The US ...

The Department of War on Sunday transported a next-generation nuclear reactor aboard a C-17 from California to Utah, advancing President Donald Trump’s executive order to modernize America’s nuclear ...

Nuclear reactors remain controversial. Events such as the Chernobyl disaster, with fallout so severe it may be creating a new kind of dog, continue to fuel safety concerns. Quite apart from the ...

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) aims to jumpstart the development and deployment of new advanced reactors this year by bypassing onerous and largely useless environmental assessments. In a May ...

WASHINGTON, Feb 4 (Reuters) - The U.S. nuclear power regulator said on Wednesday it is undergoing a reorganization in line with President Donald Trump's goals on speeding up licensing of nuclear ...

A reactor at the largest nuclear power station in the world was reactivated on January 21, 2026, for the first time since 2011. Less than six hours later, in the early hours of the next morning, it ...

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

TOKYO — Tokyo Electric Power on Wednesday restarted a reactor at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant after inspections were completed, its first such move since the Fukushima disaster in 2011.

The 2011 Fukushima meltdown was a nightmare that all but shut down Japan’s nuclear power industry. But things change, and the country has now restarted the world’s largest nuclear power plant over the ...

New reactors use novel materials and compact designs to make nuclear power safer and cheaper. Nuclear power has been a critical part of the electricity grid for decades, but old reactor designs—which ...

A Bill Gates-backed nuclear reactor dubbed “Cowboy Chernobyl” by critics is barreling toward approval in rural Wyoming, alarming residents and nuclear safety experts as regulators fast-track the ...

If you have a redundant nuclear aircraft carrier lying around, you can give HGP Intelligent Energy a call. The Texas-based developer wants to repurpose the nuclear reactors used to power carriers to ...