The small nuclear power plants will use molten salt in their fuel, making them safer and more versatile and portable than ...

whose main draw was that it was envisioned as a car powered by a nuclear reactor. This article focuses on the 1957 Ford Nucleon concept.

A team led by Su-Il In, a professor at South Korea's Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology, is developing an ...

NASA and DARPA are developing a demonstration nuclear-powered rocket that could shorten travel time to Mars and make space ...

Scientists have developed a prototype nuclear battery using radiocarbon that could power small devices for decades without ...

The U.S. currently has 94 commercial nuclear power reactors that generate electricity at 53 plants throughout the country. These plants generate 45% of our nation’s carbon-free electricity and ...

New tech could power phones, pacemakers, and more—without ever needing a charge What if your phone never needed charging? Or ...

In and his team have developed a prototype betavoltaic battery using carbon-14, a radioactive isotope that emits only beta rays. Radiocarbon is inexpensive and easy to recycle, but it also degrades at ...