Many politicians and tech companies are now pushing to build new nuclear power plants to meet the world's rapidly growing energy demands. Small reactors — known as Small Modular Reactors, or SMRs — ...

A diagram shows NuScale's proposed small modular reactor against a blue background. - NuScale Power/X America's nuclear boondoggle may be coming to an end, as the Department of Energy looks to deploy ...

The first U.S. attempt at reopening a shuttered reactor has been held back by run-down equipment and a lack of planning. Palisades opened in 1971 and was part of an early wave of reactors built in the ...