Most nuclear energy is thermal. All that complex nuclear physics and chemistry serve merely to create steam that spins a turbine, the same as any combustion-based power plant does. But what if you ...

The Office of Nuclear Energy has selected five companies in the US to research ...

The US Department of Energy's Office of Nuclear Energy has awarded more than USD19 million to five US companies to research ...

O klo Inc. plans to invest up to $1.68 billion to design, build, and operate a nuclear fuel recycling facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The initial investment will build a facility to recycle used ...

Oklo (NYSE:OKLO) said Thursday it plans to design, build and operate a facility in Tennessee to convert nuclear waste into fuel to power its own advanced small modular reactors, a first-of-its-kind ...

As Japan takes the final steps toward restarting the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant, the world’s largest nuclear facility, familiar debates are resurfacing: reactor safety, seismic risk, and ...

LONDON/WASHINGTON, Feb 6 (Reuters) - The Trump administration's plan to unleash a wave of small futuristic nuclear reactors ...

Some 3.55 million pounds of nuclear waste is beached at San Onofre. The spent fuel held in more than 120 stainless steel canisters at the now-shuttered San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, lodged ...

Oklo Inc. OKLO is rethinking how nuclear energy is produced, and at the center of its strategy is fuel recycling. Unlike conventional reactors that only use about 5% of the energy content from nuclear ...

The Nuclear Scaling Initiative’s Scale What Works campaign says that direct disposal of used nuclear fuel in the US is the "safest, most secure and least expensive pathway for the country" as nuclear ...

OPINION: Fifty years ago, California passed a moratorium on the construction of new nuclear power plants. It's time to rethink that ban.