Nuclear fission reactors struggle with two key problems: poor fuel utilization and complicated radioactive waste handling. To ...

A new exhibition in New York brings together a diverse collection of posters reflecting the opposing ideologies surrounding ...

For decades, the U.S. has led the race to clean, limitless nuclear fusion energy. Now China is catching up, spending twice as ...

Solar power developer Hecate Energy has started to build what will be the US’ biggest solar farm on 10,300 acres at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington State, The New York Times reports. The ...

PARIS, March 6 (Reuters) - French power giant EDF said on Thursday it will offer long-term nuclear power contracts to companies outside France as long as they are able to take delivery of the ...

Canada was the third country to achieve nuclear fission, but our history is littered with cautionary tales and cost overruns ...

Drawing on strong heritages of innovation to meet the renewed interest in nuclear energy, Penn State and Westinghouse Electric Co. are partnering to unlock the potential of the industry-leading eVinci ...

WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans grilled President Trump’s pick to oversee policy at the Pentagon Tuesday, asking him to state for the record whether the growing nuclear threat from Iran is ...

Researchers tested its effectiveness using two major fission products from spent nuclear fuel: cesium-137 and cobalt-60. Experiments at Ohio State's nuclear reactor laboratory yielded promising ...

CNNC also plans to scale up production of its homegrown designs for regular nuclear fission reactors and small modular reactors over the next five years, the company’s Vice General Manager Xin Feng ...

When the nucleus of a heavy atom, such as uranium or plutonium, is split into smaller parts (a process called nuclear fission), a huge amount of energy is released. This nuclear reaction is the ...