The utility shaved a year off the timeline for its small modular reactors, but needs board approval to begin construction.

T he U.S. Department of Energy has put US $900 million on the table to push small modular reactors (SMRs) from design to ...

More than 440 commercial reactors generate almost 10 percent of global electricity, a carbon‑free flow that has quietly been ...

Scientists have built the first-ever thorium reactor. Thorium is both more easily accessible and less dangerous than ...

Work has begun at Italy's Garigliano nuclear power plant to dismantle an old radioactive waste system, used during the ...

At Italy’s Garigliano NPP, in the Municipality of Sessa Aurunca (Caserta), state-owned Societa Gestione Impianti Nucleari ...

Chinese scientists achieved a breakthrough in clean energy technology by adding fresh fuel to an operational thorium reactor.

The plant utilizes boiling water reactors (BWR), the same type as the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, which suffered triple meltdowns following the earthquake and tsunami. The resumption ...

Typically the outage starts about a week into May. Columbia Generating Station, owned and operated by Energy Northwest, is a ...

TVA and its partners have reapplied for $800 million in federal funding to build the U.S.' first small modular reactor, after ...

The small nuclear power plants will use molten salt in their fuel, making them safer and more versatile and portable than ...

What if the next big thing in nuclear energy was a dusty old idea from the Cold War era? Once considered to power nuclear ...