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.

After China, India is the country with the most impressive plans for building additional nuclear capacity, with 31 prospective reactors across 9 power plants (or 32 GW of capacity in the pipeline).

Forty U.S. nuclear power reactors have shut permanently. But for the first time, an attempt is being made to re-start a closed reactor – the Palisades reactor in southwest Michigan.

The current fleet of nuclear reactors are based in huge imposing facilities generally located in isolated locations away from population centers. This need not be the case. In the near future ...

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 ...

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.

Architect’s rendering of the Hermes Low-Power Demonstration Reactor facility. The plant will the first Gen IV reactor to be approved for construction by the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

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 ...

The U.’s reactor was installed in 1975 and has been used primarily for research like creating medical isotopes, said Ted Goodell, the nuclear reactor facility director.

BELEWS CREEK, N.C. — Duke Energy is moving forward with a groundbreaking plan to add a nuclear energy reactor to the Triad. There are already three nuclear power plants in North Carolina ...

In Texas, nuclear reactors generate power at two sites — Comanche Peak, about 45 miles southwest of Fort Worth, and the South Texas Project, about 100 miles northeast of Corpus Christi.