Painters are wanted for a job worth up to £500,000 at the Dounreay nuclear power site's "golf ball". Also known as the "dome" and the "sphere", the 41m (135ft) diameter structure contained the ...

The world’s largest and most powerful superconducting electromagnet is ready to become the pulsing “heart” inside of a massive tokamak nuclear fusion reactor.Developed over 40 years in ...

Pentagon to build micro nuclear reactor to power far-flung bases. Testifying before the House Armed Services Committee on Wednesday, Driscoll and Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George took ...

The NRC has overseen commercial nuclear reactors for 50 years since its creation in 1975. Amid concerns over overregulation, the U.S. has only two operational commercial reactors whose ...

President Donald Trump signed four nuclear energy-related executive orders on Friday that will speed up reactor testing, allow the Departments of Energy and Defense to build nuclear reactors on ...

Their reactor has a central magnet inside a sphere of plasma, instead of a traditional donut. A recent spate of nuclear fusion announcements have covered an emerging fusion reactor in New Zealand.

Utah Gov. Spencer Cox recently announced that the state has partnered with a California startup to bring a nuclear test reactor to the state. What he didn’t mention is that the state and the ...

A nuclear reactor that seems on a fast track for development in Utah, by a company known as Valar Atomics, may yield important research information but it won't produce any energy.

Taiwan started to shut its final nuclear reactor on Saturday as a 40-year operating license expired, in a move that could threaten the island’s energy security and climate goals.

The liquid-fueled molten salt reactors such as the MSRE and the TMSR-LF have distinguishing dynamic features compared with solid-fueled reactors, such that conventional system analysis codes are ...

What sets Google apart with this deal is that it’s turning to next-generation reactors rather than traditional nuclear power plants. SMRs are roughly one-tenth to one-quarter the size in comparison.

The French government has asked Electricite de France SA to accelerate efforts to finalize its plans to build six new nuclear reactors, while delaying the target date for the start of the first ...