The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has approved the construction permit for a new commercial nuclear reactor in western Wyoming. This is the first permit of its kind to be approved in eight ...

TerraPower, a Bill Gates–backed nuclear power start-up, received the federal green light to start building a power plant in ...

Oak Ridge is becoming America's nuclear energy core, with TVA and Kairos Power building advanced reactors to provide power.

The United States has taken a step toward a 21st-century renaissance in civilian nuclear power as the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has given the go-ahead for TerraPower's Natrium Gen IV reactor ...

TerraPower was approved Wednesday for a construction permit to build a first-of-its-kind nuclear power plant near Kemmerer, Wyoming. It’s the first ...

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

China’s Institute of Modern Physics, part of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, is building what it calls the world’s first ...

An innovative algorithm for detecting collisions of high-speed particles within nuclear fusion reactors has been developed, inspired by technologies used to determine whether bullets hit targets in ...

Ion beams can now qualify nuclear reactor materials up to 1,000 times faster than ...

SPEEDWELL, Tenn. (WATE) — A company that manufactures a critical material for nuclear reactors said Monday that it is no longer seeking to build a facility in Claiborne County. Carbonium Core, a ...

TerraPower, a start-up founded by Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates, is set to build a new kind of nuclear power plant in Wyoming ...