Fourteen years after the devastating earthquake and tsunami led to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident, the site has made ...

As a result, we have embarked on a focused technology strategy concentrated on three core pillars ... Large-scale nuclear power plants take more than a decade to permit, construct, and commission.

Chinese engineers identify a design flaw in NASA's lunar nuclear reactor, suggesting improvements that could boost efficiency ...

Holtec International, teaming with Hyundai, seeks to be the first with U.S.-manufactured small modular nuclear reactors ... can move heat away from the reactor core using gravity-based internal ...

The majority of nuclear power plants around the world currently use pressurized water reactors (PWRs). In these, water is used as a coolant and is pumped under high pressure to the reactor core. There ...

Scientists discovered a natural nuclear reactor inside an African territory two billion years ago. This natural occurrence, which scientists call the Oklo reactor, made geological and atomic aspects ...

The other company, California-based Kairos Power, is building its 35 megawatt test reactor in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, the 80-year capital of American nuclear power science. Both target completion in ...

The idea of floating nuclear plants isn't new. Reactors have been installed in submarines and ships since the USS Nautilus in 1954 and the first floating power plant dates back to 1967. The idea ...

The BSMR was based on the “globally proven” pressurised water reactor technology. It was equipped with passive safety features as well as several engineered safety systems to ensure nuclear ...

Core Power calls its development the Floating Nuclear Power Plant (FNPP for short). It is to have a molten salt reactor with an output of 1.2 gigawatts. The electricity is to be transported ashore ...