Bill Gates-backed TerraPower won the first US reactor construction grant in nearly a decade, as AI-driven data center demand is reviving interest in nuclear power.

Small, possibly portable, nuclear reactors that can’t melt down are moving toward reality in the United States, with what may be the first two coming online or beginning construction this year. The US ...

A next-generation nuclear reactor left March Air Reserve Base, Calif., on Sunday in a first-of-its-kind airlift. The modules of the reactor were loaded aboard three C-17 Globemaster III aircraft, and ...

HILL AIR FORCE BASE, Utah—The U.S. military airlifted a modern nuclear reactor on Sunday for the first time, part of President Trump’s push to deploy nuclear power across the United States. Three C-17 ...

Nuclear power isn't just for naval ships anymore as demonstrated by the Nuclear Propulsion in merchant Shipping (NuProShip II) project led by the Norwegian University of Science and Technology which ...

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WASHINGTON — NASA and the Department of Energy have agreed to work together on development of nuclear reactors for the moon as industry awaits the release of a final call for proposals. NASA and DOE ...

On the sandy shores of Lake Michigan, set against a backdrop of thick forest, a sharp-angled grey concrete building could be the face of an American nuclear renaissance. The Palisades nuclear plant, ...

COLLEGE STATION – Texas A&M has big plans for small reactors as it expands the nation’s largest nuclear engineering program and partners with six startups to develop new power plant technologies. The ...

The moon is going nuclear. On Tuesday NASA and the U.S. Department of Energy announced a commitment to build a fission reactor on the lunar surface. NASA has been exploring nuclear power for the moon ...