As night descends on the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the High Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR) bursts with activity. A rigorous 24-day fuel cycle concludes and neutron production ...

Restart of No 6 reactor at Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant suspended after malfunction related to control rods.

LYNCHBURG, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--BWX Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: BWXT) announced today that work has commenced to fabricate the reactor core for the Pele microreactor at its BWXT Innovation Campus in ...

The United States is about to ship some of the world’s most closely watched nuclear fuel to a private company, a move that ...

Antares, a nuclear fission energy company developing microreactors for defense and space applications, today announced that the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has approved the company's Preliminary ...

Sometimes an idea is so elegant that it really deserves to work. One such is a proposal put forward by the boss of Deep Fission, an aspiring nuclear-power firm in Berkeley, California. Elizabeth ...

An innovative algorithm for detecting collisions of high-speed particles within nuclear fusion reactors has been developed, inspired by technologies used to determine whether bullets hit targets in ...

Argentina’s RA-10 reactor has begun cooling pump tests and dummy fuel installation, boosting isotope production and research.

VERNON — The last remaining large structure at the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant site is about to come down. The reactor building, a distinctive green with a white top and five stories tall, has been ...

Core disruptive accidents (CDAs) in sodium-cooled fast reactors represent a severe class of events in which the integrity of the reactor core is rapidly compromised, leading to the dispersal of molten ...

The U.S. government will not get involved in Cameco's (CCJ) core uranium mining business under the massive nuclear reactor deal announced last week, CEO Tim Gitzel said Wednesday. The U.S. Commerce ...