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.

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.

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.

From there, the electricity produced by the nuclear plant is expected to power around 800,000 homes in Michigan, Illinois, and Indiana, based on the utilities’ service areas.

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 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.