Gold and other heavy elements are born in some of the universe’s most violent events—but scientists still struggle to understand the nuclear steps that create them. Now, nuclear physicists have ...

The US Department of Energy has greenlit the safety basis for the MARVEL microreactor, clearing the path for its first experiments.

Researchers at Idaho National Laboratory have developed a compact reactivity control system for the MARVEL sodium-potassium-cooled microreactor.

A next-generation nuclear reactor left March Air Reserve Base, Calif., on Sunday in a first-of-its-kind airlift. The modules of the reactor were loaded aboard three C-17 Globemaster III aircraft, and ...

HILL AIR FORCE BASE, Utah—The U.S. military airlifted a modern nuclear reactor on Sunday for the first time, part of President Trump’s push to deploy nuclear power across the United States. Three C-17 ...

The Department of War on Sunday transported a next-generation nuclear reactor aboard a C-17 from California to Utah, advancing President Donald Trump’s executive order to modernize America’s nuclear ...

The United States military is leading a major push for nuclear energy, and it took a big step toward accomplishing one of President Donald Trump's goals in Riverside County on Sunday, Feb. 15. On that ...

Nuclear reactors remain controversial. Events such as the Chernobyl disaster, with fallout so severe it may be creating a new kind of dog, continue to fuel safety concerns. Quite apart from the ...

NASA's Artemis II rocket is scheduled to blast off this spring, taking humans back to the moon's orbit for the first time in more than 50 years. A nuclear reactor at UC Davis in Northern California is ...

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) aims to jumpstart the development and deployment of new advanced reactors this year by bypassing onerous and largely useless environmental assessments. In a May ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Since several of its reactors exploded, water that has seeped into the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant merged with radioactive sludge and ...

British engine maker Rolls-Royce Holdings Plc has halted a plan backed by millions in government funding to put a mini nuclear reactor on the Moon, the Telegraph reported. The program, which planned ...