On-the-ground efforts are already underway at the site of a closed nuclear power plant in Southwest Michigan to co-locate a ...

With its usual supply of HALEU cut off due to the war in Ukraine, the U.S. is turning toward down-blending its old nuclear arsenal ... of HALEU for future nuclear reactors. Although the next ...

As nuclear power companies gear up to revive old reactors and build a generation of new ones to meet burgeoning power demands for artificial intelligence, cryptocurrency and electric vehicles ...

The US has issued a permit to construct a different kind of nuclear reactor. Known as a molten-salt reactor, it could lead to smaller, easier-to-build nuclear power plants in the future that could ...

Diablo Canyon’s reprieve is a rare bright spot for U.S. nuclear power, which has struggled in recent decades. The U.S. fleet is aging fast—the average reactor is about 40 years old.

Numerous ventures are looking to develop small modular nuclear reactors (SMRs ... which can be harvested from old weapons stockpiles. For an alternative source, the Department of Energy is ...

The recipe to create advanced reactor fuel involves melting weapons ... are racing to produce it at home. Downblending old weapons from the nuclear arsenal is not the only way to make this fuel ...

Google has ordered six to seven small modular nuclear reactors (SMRs ... a seven-year-old start-up, to bring its first commercial reactor online by 2030 and additional reactors by 2035.

the demand for nuclear fuel and reactors is expected to rise steadily. SMRs in particular have caught the interest of officials thanks to their reliance on "high assay low-enriched uranium" (HALEU) ...