NASA and the US Department of Energy have reaffirmed their joint project to develop a nuclear fission reactor for the surface ...

Commercial nuclear reactors all work pretty much the same way. Atoms of a radioactive material split, emitting neutrons.

Fireplaces are cozy until it’s time to shovel out the ashes. Nuclear power has the same problem: abundant, reliable energy paired with a growing pile of difficult-to-discard spent fuel. But a new ...

The U.S. space agency and the Department of Energy will work together to build a fission reactor on the lunar surface in the ...

NASA and the Department of Energy have officially embarked on an ambitious goal to plant a nuclear reactor on the Moon's ...

NASA and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) have reignited efforts to develop a small nuclear reactor for deployment on the ...

NASA and the Department of Energy signed an agreement earlier this week committing to put a nuclear reactor on the moon in ...

Deep Fission, an advanced nuclear energy company redefining the industry by placing small modular pressurized water reactors in boreholes a mile underground, today announced the official name of its ...

Steve Zinkle will speak on “Materials for Nuclear Power Applications” at noon Tuesday, Jan. 13, to Friends of ORNL. His talk is open to the public.

A critical shortage of fuel for nuclear fusion reactors may have a rather counterintuitive solution. A physicist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) says that fusion reactor fuel could be ...

PARSONS, Kan. — A California company has announced plans to bring a first-of-its-kind nuclear reactor to Southeast Kansas that it hopes will be generating electrical power in the next two or three ...

Parsons, Kansas, may be the site of a California startup’s first ever 1-mile-deep nuclear reactor — with support from county commissioners, both Republican Kansas U.S. senators and Democratic Gov.