If you’ve ever wanted to operate your own nuclear reactor, you probably aren’t going to get one in your backyard shop. However, thanks to the University of Manchester, you can get a simulated ...

The construction of the world's largest nuclear reactor with the potential to replicate the energy of the sun has finally been completed, but it would take another 15 years for it become operational.

Nicknamed “Chicago Pile-1,” the world’s first nuclear reactor kicked off the Atomic Age and has a complicated legacy, including the rise of both nuclear energy and nuclear weapons. As physicists came ...

Age of oldest reactor on site based on date operating license issued.

Because nuclear fuel has such an incredible energy density, that's about 0.46 ¢/kWh – and the fuel costs keep dropping as the technology becomes more efficient.

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In this context, a company has come up with an innovative idea of setting up a nuclear reactor almost a mile deep below Earth ...

He’s done it for real. His memories of working at a Westinghouse Pressurized Water Reactor over 30 years ago are so sharp that he’s been building a nuclear reactor “simulator” running on ...

The US used to get most of its enriched uranium from Russia. Now scientists and companies are racing to produce it at home.

In the 1970s and 80s, more than a hundred nuclear reactors were built in the United States. They promised abundant, safe, “clean” energy, free from the pollution associated with coal and other fossil ...

Nuclear power is experiencing a renaissance following years of being shunned after a reactor disaster in Japan. Between 2011, the year of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant disaster ...

Chatting with HPCwire, James Walker, CEO of Nano Nuclear Energy, outlined how micro nuclear reactors could offer a viable solution. These small, portable reactors are designed to provide clean ...