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

That was the thought racing through physicist Francis Perrin’s mind in May 1972. He was examining a dark piece of uranium ore at a nuclear fuel processing plant in southern France. The uranium sample, ...

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 ...

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

Recently, another reactor in France reported a major tungsten breakthrough: its toroidal tokamak, clad in tungsten, ...

Purdue assistant professor Stylianos Chatzidakis, center, and his students interact with equipment that feeds a digital twin of Purdue’s reactor. Source: Purdue University photo/John Underwood. At ...

Study models the consequences of failure at Egypt's El-Dabaa nuclear reactor and warns the impact would extend up to 50 miles ...

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 ...