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Oklo's fast-neutron, sodium-cooled Aurora reactor design aims for lower construction and operational costs. Read more on OKLO ...

Framatome’s GAIA and HTP fuel designs could transform the nuclear industry following key NRC approval for high-burnup limits.

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In a Kyiv apartment building housing the families of Chornobyl workers, a wartime tragedy strikes three friends preparing to mark 40 years since the nuclear accident.

Gas prices have become terrible in recent years, but some thorium-powered concepts promised to eliminate the need for it.

The final 85-gallon drums of toxic Hanford waste left an Idaho treatment facility in 2010, bound for permanent disposal in ...

A startup founded just four years ago is now installing what it calls the world’s first non-nuclear lead-cooled reactor ...

TerraPower begins construction of the first U.S. utility-scale advanced nuclear plant—can its Natrium design finally move ...

How nuclear energy and then electricity are produced is often feared as rocket science. The fact is that it is not that difficult to understand. It is, however, difficult to get it done safely and ...

The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission has approved Kairos Power's request that the completion date specified in the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Navy is reviewing the design and costs of one of its most high-tech and expensive warships — the ...