Using lead as a coolant could save us from a nuclear catastrophe.

Deployable Energy today announced that its demonstration reactor Unity has successfully achieved initial criticality at the National Reactor Innovation Center located at Idaho National Laboratory (INL ...

Plutonium is one of the most complex elements in the periodic table. First synthesized and isolated in 1940 by scientists at ...

Valar Atomics has achieved self-sustaining criticality and completed zero-power testing at Ward 250, its Gen IV ...

The Mark-0 sodium heat pipe-cooled microreactor developed by California-based Antares was recently brought to zero-power ...

Antares Nuclear’s microreactor became the first advanced design to complete a criticality test under the DOE RPP. Read more ...

Traditional nuclear plants are powered by uranium rods that super heat water to a high enough pressure to activate turbines, ...

Antares Nuclear's Mark-0 microreactor achieves criticality at Idaho National Laboratory, the first advanced reactor to do so under Trump's DOE program.

This event was the first time that water had been used to detect a particle known as an antineutrino, which had been fired ...

A couple years ago, shortly after Governor Dunleavy began his second term, I was killing time in the Juneau airport waiting ...

Opportunities to invest in commercial nuclear fusion are limited for now, but these companies stand to benefit from their ...

Cognitive biases due to past nuclear accidents continue to shape energy policy long after the technologies themselves have ...