The White House is moving to fast-track nuclear power development in space, laying out a detailed road map with firm agency roles and time frames to put reactors on the moon and in orbit within the ...

A memo released by the Trump administration on Tuesday detailed a goal of having a nuclear reactor on the moon’s surface by 2030, a move that furthers the United States’ quest for supremacy in space ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.— Launch nuclear reactors to orbit as soon as 2028 and to the Moon as soon as 2030—that’s the White House’s new order to the Pentagon and NASA. The six-page policy memo released ...

Bringing a new type of nuclear reactor to Iowa could cost billions, according to a presentation during the Iowa Nuclear Energy Task Force meeting on Monday. Michelle Zietlow Miller, the former ...

Additional nuclear power is coming to North Alabama and the result could be lower utility prices. President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi last week announced Japan’s ...

New designs mean new strategies for managing spent fuel. MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of technology to help you understand what’s coming next. You ...

TerraPower CEO Chris Levesque displays a fuel assembly model for its planned small nuclear reactors in 2022. (Elaine Thompson/AP) Something shocking happened this week: Bureaucrats approved a project ...

Bill Gates’s nuclear energy startup TerraPower has just cleared a regulatory hurdle that the U.S. nuclear industry has been waiting years to see. On March 4, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission granted ...

TerraPower’s project in Wyoming, which uses novel technology, is the first new commercial reactor to receive federal approval in nearly a decade. By Brad Plumer Reporting from Washington A novel type ...

The exercise was carried out by the 62nd Airlift Wing, the only US Air Force unit certified to routinely transport US nuclear weapons to ensure both safety and security. It demonstrated that a nuclear ...

Hanford demolished a 175‑foot reactor exhaust stack as a step toward cocooning. Explosives used to bring down stack at K West Reactor. Putting reactor in storage mode will cut monitoring costs.