A nuclear reactor is the device in a power plant where fission takes place. Pieces of uranium about the size of your fingertip get stacked up in 12-foot-long metal tubes, called rods. Bunches of ...

Nuclear power plays a critical role in the United States’ energy landscape. The country operates the largest fleet of nuclear reactors in the world, with 94 reactors across 54 sites.

Microsoft announced on 20 September that it had struck a 20-year deal to purchase energy from a dormant nuclear power plant that will be brought back online. And not just any plant: Three Mile ...

— -- Three Mile Island, the Pennsylvania nuclear power plant that was the site of the worst commercial nuclear power accident in the United States 38 years ago, will close in 2019 unless it ...

California’s last remaining nuclear energy plant is using artificial intelligence to make its processes more efficient. So far, AI is only being used for document retrieval, but lawmakers and ...

A decade later, in 1965, the TVA announced plans for its first nuclear power plant. “Nuclear Roars at King Coal” read a Knoxville newspaper headline.

The country’s first nuclear power plant connected to the grid in 1991, and in just a few decades it has built the third-largest fleet in the world, after only France and the US.

“Nuclear nightmare”, screamed the headline in Time magazine on April 9th 1979. One of the two reactors at a nuclear-power plant at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania had suffered an accident ...

New York will develop a state-of-the-art nuclear power plant to electrify data centers and microchip factories coming to upstate, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Monday, June 23.

The Indian Point nuclear power plant, on the banks of the Hudson River about 30 miles north of New York City, first opened in 1962 and was greatly expanded in the 1970s. For many years it was a ...

The British government said on Tuesday that it would spend as much as 14.2 billion pounds, or about $19 billion, on constructing a nuclear power station, a project that is expected to create ...