Japan has restarted a nuclear reactor at the Onagawa plant after a massive 2011 earthquake and tsunami led to damage at nearby Fukushima nuclear power plant.

Deep Fission has come up with a new solution to the economic and safety problems of nuclear power that is, to say the least, novel. The idea is to build a reactor that's under 30 inches (76 cm ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Underground on Purdue University’s campus is the only nuclear reactor in Indiana. Although used just for research purposes — the total energy the reactor generates powers about ...

In Japan, a nuclear watchdog halted a reactor from spinning up after deciding it was unsafe. In the U.S., the Department of Energy has set a goal of tripling its nuclear capacity by the year 2050.

SMRs are advanced nuclear reactors with a power capacity of up to 300 MW(e) per unit, equivalent to about one-third the generating capacity of a conventional nuclear reactor.

Prior to that, the Texas Advanced Nuclear Reactor Working Group that Gov. Greg Abbott had ordered be formed put out various recommendations for bringing the technology to the state in mid-November.

Utah wasn’t the only state vying to be the site of a small nuclear test reactor that Valar Atomics plans to build, according to the startup’s founder, 25-year-old Isaiah Taylor. “To be ...

news Education. On-campus nuclear reactor approved for university in Texas The small plant is the first research reactor the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has approved in more than 40 years.

Nicknamed “Chicago Pile-1,” the world’s first nuclear reactor was created on Dec. 2, 1942 at the University of Chicago. On Dec. 2, 1942, Manhattan Project scientists achieved the first sustained ...

A startup in Israel is developing a nuclear reactor no bigger than a desktop computer. Having proved that the breakthrough technology works, Metatron N.R.G. now aims to build a fully functioning ...

Technology Chinese nuclear reactor is completely meltdown-proof. The first ever full-scale demonstration of a nuclear reactor designed to passively cool itself in an emergency was a success ...

The world’s largest and most powerful superconducting electromagnet is ready to become the pulsing “heart” inside of a massive tokamak nuclear fusion reactor.Developed over 40 years in ...