Small nuclear reactors are pitched as cheaper, safer, faster and easier to finance than their conventional counterparts. Hype around them is building fast, but some experts warn it ignores fundamental ...

Maharashtra is advancing plans to build India's first commercial thorium-based nuclear power plants, a significant shift in ...

Unit 2 reactor is seen at Luminant's Comanche Peak Nuclear Power Plant near Glen Rose, Texas, Wednesday, March 23, 2011. (Tom Fox/The Dallas Morning News) Tom Fox/Staff Photographer / THE DALLAS ...

The Trump administration wants to sharply speed up the construction of nuclear power plants, but fixing the industry’s bottlenecks could take years. By Claire Brown Nuclear energy has emerged as a ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. With demand for energy in the United States rapidly rising ...

As U.S. electricity demand rises and technology companies seek to build more and larger data centers to drive artificial intelligence systems, the main question arising is how to generate all that ...

Nuclear energy is often regarded as the cleanest power source on Earth. Unlike coal or gas, nuclear power plants don't release smoke and other contaminants into the air. They produce massive amounts ...

Amid efforts to mitigate climate change, decarbonizing the power system has become a top priority. While the transition to non-fossil energy sources ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Colorado has a new law declaring nuclear power a source of clean energy. The Denver airport might explore building a small nuclear reactor to meet the rising ...