All the different types of small modular reactors generate heat the same way: by splitting heavy atoms and capturing the heat ...

Duke Energy has submitted its first site application with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission for a new nuclear reactor in ...

Washington spent much of the 1970s trying to become a center for nuclear power, with plans for five huge fission reactors at Richland and Satsop.

Routine reactor emissions pose no meaningful health risk to the US workers and population, a health physicist and a nuclear ...

A Russian cargo ship that sank to the bottom of the Mediterranean under unusual circumstances last year is believed to have been carrying parts for a type of naval nuclear reactor, according to a new ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Leonel Lagos, Florida International University (THE CONVERSATION) As U.S. electricity ...