Seventy-five years ago, the sweeping landscape of the Idaho desert over the Snake River Aquifer was a land of sagebrush, ...

The $800 million grant is part of the U.S. Department of Energy's Generation III+ Small Modular Reactor Program and will go ...

Jimmy Carter formed the Department of Energy, opposed a major Oak Ridge nuclear project and responded to Three Mile Island.

Its Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor (PFBR) is expected to be operational by the end of 2025. This announcement underscores India’s commitment to sustainable energy solutions and its ...

Experimental Breeder Reactor II (EBR II), prototype to the US Integral Fast Reactor. Unfortunately, fast reactors have the disadvantages of being more expensive than LWRs and the challenges of ...

The Demonstration of Microreactor Experiments test bed at Idaho National Laboratory, set to repurpose the Experimental-Breeder Reactor-II containment structure to conduct tests in 2026.

Painters are wanted for a job worth up to £500,000 at the Dounreay nuclear power site's "golf ball". Also known as the "dome" ...

A "fast reactor" is a type of nuclear reactor that uses fast neutrons to sustain a chain reaction, while a "breeder reactor" is a specific design of fast reactor that produces more fissile fuel (like ...

When President Jimmy Carter said he was coming to Oak Ridge in 1978 after announcing he planned to defer the Breeder Reactor ...

Marsha Bartholomay won second place in the Jordan Lions and the Jordaness Lions essay contest. Her essay is called “The Benefits of Nuclear Energy.” Here is what Bartholomay wrote: ...