In the heart of Africa, beneath the soil of Gabon, a prehistoric natural nuclear reactor functioned for hundreds of thousands of years. Its discovery stunned physicists and offered a rare glimpse into ...

For the first time in the United States, a utility is asking federal regulators for a permit to build a small nuclear reactor. First US utility seeks permit for a small nuclear reactor The nation ...

The governor's bill would "allow for advanced nuclear development and deployment," her office said, and proposes consideration of small modular reactors "that could improve reliability ...

The uranium sample, extracted from a mine in Gabon, Africa ... it’s a natural sample that had undergone fusion back when Earth was still a young planet. Man-made nuclear fission reactors ...

U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright recently joined the Westinghouse/Bechtel Consortium (WBC), the Polish nuclear developer Polskie Elektrownie Jądrowe (PEJ) and Polish Prime Minister Donald ...

"An important question for the ILRS is power supply, and in this Russia has a natural advantage, when it comes to nuclear power plants ... microsatellite in low Earth orbit, the first quantum ...

Neutrinos, elusive fundamental particles, can act as a window into the center of a nuclear reactor, the interior of the Earth, or some of the most dynamic objects in the universe. Their tendency ...

It might seem like everyone from venture capitalists to the news media to the U.S. secretary of Energy has been hyping small modular reactors as the key to unlocking a nuclear renaissance and ...

"The traditional nuclear reactors have like a 90%-93% capacity factor, meaning that they operate at their nameplate capacity that often," she explained. "Most other sources are below 50%. Natural ...

Georgia Power’s Plant Vogtle 3 and 4 are the only new reactors that have been built ... were more than double original estimates. As a nuclear professional with decades of construction and ...

Dow, a major producer of chemicals and plastics, wants to use next-generation nuclear reactors for clean power and steam at a Texas manufacturing complex instead of natural gas. Dow’s subsidiary ...