In 1959, the U.S. Army quietly drafted Project Horizon, a detailed blueprint for a 12 man lunar outpost powered by nuclear reactors and built to hold the strategic high ground. This story traces how ...

First concrete has been poured for the nuclear island of unit 1 at Phase I of the Xuwei nuclear power project in China's ...

The U.S. space agency and the Department of Energy will work together to build a fission reactor on the lunar surface in the ...

NASA and the DOE partner to build a lunar nuclear reactor by 2030, providing the power needed for sustained space missions.

History shows that when American science and innovation come together, from the Manhattan Project to the Apollo Mission, our ...

Fireplaces are cozy until it’s time to shovel out the ashes. Nuclear power has the same problem: abundant, reliable energy ...

Adani Group, the conglomerate of Indian billionaire Gautam Adani, is in talks with the state government of India’s northern Uttar Pradesh state on a public-private partnership to build small modular ...

Last week, Deep Fission broke ground on a pilot program to bury small modular reactors underground in Parsons, Kansas. This project is the first of its kind in the United States, and comes as part of ...

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Two more nuclear companies have been awarded large grants by the Trump administration. The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) and Holtec will each receive $400 million from the Department of Energy to ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — The Tennessee Valley Authority has been awarded a $400 million grant by the U.S. Department of Energy to speed up the development of the country’s first Small Modular Reactor ...