The federal regulatory agency tasked with keeping America’s nuclear power plants safe and running smoothly is set to make huge cuts to the amount of time its staffers spend on safety and emergency ...

Holtec’s attempt to restart the shuttered Palisades nuclear plant faces delays, safety questions and missing documentation.

Fifteen years after the Fukushima nuclear disaster, the catastrophe’s lasting scars continue to shape Japan’s debate over nuclear energy, as the government cautiously moves to restart reactors amid ...

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission on Wednesday approved its first construction permit for a commercial nuclear reactor in eight years, one that will allow a Bill Gates-backed company to build a ...

The nuclear industry is in the mist of a renaissance. Old plants are being refurbished, and investors are showering startups with cash. In the last several weeks of 2025 alone, nuclear startups raised ...

In May, President Trump sat in the Oval Office flanked by executives from America’s nuclear power industry. “It’s a hot industry. It’s a brilliant industry,” the president said from behind the ...

As Japan takes the final steps toward restarting the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant, the world’s largest nuclear facility, familiar debates are resurfacing: reactor safety, seismic risk, and ...

TOKYO (AP) — The world’s largest nuclear power plant restarted Wednesday in north-central Japan for the first time since the 2011 Fukushima nuclear meltdown, as resource-poor Japan accelerates atomic ...

A materials expert told Friends of ORNL that advanced nuclear reactors need 21st-century materials to withstand extreme ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Citing cultural problems as the reason for the 2011 Japan nuclear reactor disaster is risky because some of the key problems involving regulation and technical issues could ...

The plan is for South Africa to anchor the southern African power pool with nuclear baseload. The problem is that the chosen projects may not be able to sustain this grand ambition.

A nuclear submarine can disappear from the operational fleet for years without leaving the map, and that absence still changes what the Navy can do. That is the engineering reality behind a prolonged ...