When the second reactor opened at Connecticut’s Millstone Nuclear Power Station on Sept. 26, 1975, nuclear power was at the height of a golden age in the United States. Millstone, situated on a ...

Theoretically, there's no better, more practical source of reliable, carbon-free energy than the current generation of nuclear reactors. In practice, the theory holds water, but there are still a few ...

Fabrication of the reactor core for the Project Pele prototype mobile microreactor - the first microreactor to be built and operated in the USA - has begun at BWX Technologies' Innovation Campus in ...

Scientists just brought us one step closer to the dream of unlimited power. On November 17 at the Nevada National Security Site, a nuclear energy startup called Valar Atomics achieved zero-power ...

Core disruptive accidents (CDAs) in sodium-cooled fast reactors represent a severe class of events in which the integrity of the reactor core is rapidly compromised, leading to the dispersal of molten ...

Sometimes an idea is so elegant that it really deserves to work. One such is a proposal put forward by the boss of Deep Fission, an aspiring nuclear-power firm in Berkeley, California. Elizabeth ...