Nations are racing to deploy advanced reactors for cleaner, more secure nuclear energy, which ...

X-energy, a Maryland-based nuclear technology firm, is betting that a reactor fueled by tiny, heat-resistant particles can eliminate the risk of a core meltdown entirely. That claim, if validated at ...

Few manmade threats inspire as much fear as the potential of a nuclear meltdown. The fact that "Chernobyl," once an obscure Ukrainian town, is now globally recognized as a synonym for catastrophe ...

The restart of a reactor at the world’s largest nuclear power plant has been suspended in Japan, a day after the process ...

An artist’s rendering shows the AP300 small modular reactor design that Westinghouse Electric Co. announced in 2023. As the nation responds to soaring demands for power and sharp spikes in electricity ...

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 ...