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.

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 ...

Two full-size reactors in Georgia, the first new nuclear plants to be constructed in decades, took 15 years to build, seven years behind schedule, and cost twice their $14 billion budget. SMRs are ...

Big Tech's big bet on nuclear power 07:30. President Trump on Friday signed several executive orders to help clear the way for more nuclear power development and, in the words of one of his top ...

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.

Nuclear energy in the United States is undergoing a revival. FOX Business correspondent Jeff Flock, reporting Wednesday from the site of a planned Natura Resources small modular nuclear reactor in ...

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 ...

Nuclear Energy on the Half-Shell Two men look at the bottom half of the reactor-to-be at the Dounreay atomic power plant in Scotland, a steel ball 135 feet wide, made of welded plates, in 1956.

Man-made nuclear fission reactors work by carefully controlling a chain reaction where uranium-235 atoms are split by neutrons, releasing energy and more neutrons, which go on to split additional ...

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.

Some members of the nuclear industry applauded the reform. "The safety regulations that we put in place were largely reactionary to Three Mile Island," says Isaiah Taylor, CEO and Founder of Valar ...

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 ...