The United States seeks to put a nuclear reactor on the moon, Slovakia pursues a dual nuclear energy path, and DOE launches a spent fuel research center ...

US nuclear waste disposal company Deep Isolation says that a two-year research project that subjected its Universal Canister ...

Some 3.55 million pounds of nuclear waste is beached at San Onofre. The spent fuel held in more than 120 stainless steel canisters at the now-shuttered San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, lodged ...

Sweden’s power giant Vattenfall announced on Tuesday it is applying for state aid for an investment in small modular reactors (SMRs) as part of a plan by industrial giants to bet on new nuclear power ...

Non-fuel radioactive waste is loaded into a rail car for delivery to a facility in Texas at the site of the former Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant in Vernon on Oct. 10, 2023. File photo by Glenn ...

Swedish nuclear startup Blykalla AB has raised $50 million of fresh capital to accelerate its work on a small modular reactor that could help power data centers and other facilities. The round was ...

A study published in the journal Nuclear Engineering and Design has revealed that atomic reactor waste could actually be used to boost hydrogen production by up to 10 times the current rate.

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The mystique of nuclear-powered submarines has been captured by at least half a dozen popular Hollywood films. Some have centered on the drama of undersea warfare and the risk of global nuclear ...

The world is running out of easy answers to meet the skyrocketing energy demand. Driven by the boom in artificial intelligence data centers, electric vehicles, and household energy needs, the ...

The demolition of the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station is well underway. But what will happen to its radioactive waste sitting on the coastline? KPBS environment reporter Tammy Murga says San ...