The Idaho National Laboratory (INL) has cleared a major hurdle in making a Generation IV nuclear reactor practical. Using a ...

The T-15 tokamak installation is designed to produce and study plasma with thermonuclear parameters and solve some engineering tasks directly associated with the thermonuclear reactor’s creation.

The utilities have not announced a location or timetable for such a project and say they aren't yet officially proposing a new reactor to complement the Palo Verde Generating Station in the West ...

Nicknamed “Chicago Pile-1,” the world’s first nuclear reactor kicked off the Atomic Age and has a complicated legacy, including the rise of both nuclear energy and nuclear weapons. As physicists came ...

Nuclear energy is a carbon-free power source produced by breaking atoms apart inside a reactor, a process called fission. Unlike coal and other fossil fuels, this type of energy doesn’t directly ...