Commercial nuclear reactors all work pretty much the same way. Atoms of a radioactive material split, emitting neutrons.

A powerful, open-source software package named OpenMC has emerged as a cornerstone in the global effort to develop the next ...

Explore the potential of molten salt nuclear power technology, which aims to eliminate concerns about nuclear waste and disasters while providing nearly unlimited energy. This video discusses how ...

Are microreactors the future of nuclear energy? Someday, nuclear reactors the size of shipping containers could power your hometown, but a huge number of regulatory hurdles will have to be cleared ...

INDIANAPOLIS — On Tuesday, Nov. 4, First American Nuclear (FANCO) announced they were moving to Indiana and planning to build their first energy park using their EAGL-1 small modular reactors (SMRs).

Aggies have big plans for small reactors at nation's largest nuclear program. The Texas A&M campus at College Station could ...

Aditi Verma receives research funding from the U.S. Department of Energy. She is a board member for the Good Energy Collective and serves on various expert working groups of the OECD Nuclear Energy ...

You might imagine nuclear power plants as behemoth facilities spanning hundreds of acres. Nuclear microreactors, by contrast, could sit on land the size of a football field and power a whole town. I’m ...

This April, in a speech given at the Shanghai branch of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the physicist Xu Hongjie announced a breakthrough. For over a decade, his team had been working on an ...

The Year Ahead: Key Events at the IAEA in 2026 From strengthening safeguards and helping countries build resilient nuclear fuel supply chains to enhancing radiation protection for patients, 2026 will ...