The announcement comes just days after NPR revealed the administration had secretly rewritten safety and environmental ...

Ultra-pure nuclear fuel is quietly becoming one of the most strategic technologies in the energy transition, with the United States racing to build its own supply for a new generation of compact ...

NASA and the Department of Energy have agreed to work together on development of nuclear reactors for the moon.

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

DoE trims NEPA paperwork for advanced reactors The Department of Energy says advanced nuclear reactor designs - many of which have so far existed mainly at the experimental, testing, or demonstration ...

Rolls-Royce has halted a taxpayer-backed plan to put a mini nuclear reactor on the Moon. The engineering giant drew up plans to develop a lunar power source for the UK Space Agency and was handed £9m ...

The UK Space Agency’s ambitious dream of establishing a nuclear-powered Moon base has dimmed.

Parsons, Kansas, will 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.

A company with a vision of installing “discreet, bespoke,” small, nuclear reactors 1 mile underground for data centers and other electricity-hungry industries plans to put its first reactors in Kansas ...

Chinese scientists successfully converted thorium-232 into uranium-233 within an experimental thorium molten salt reactor, validating the technical feasibility of the thorium fuel cycle. This ...

The ore was recovered in the early 1970s and completely stumped scientists, until they realized it was evidence of something ...