New reactors use novel materials and compact designs to make nuclear power safer and cheaper.

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

Dr. John George Trump had a clear passion for energy innovation and domination and that legacy is carried on through the ...

The Space Age framed nuclear propulsion as a quiet rethinking of movement, distance, and endurance beyond Earth.

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Nuclear weapons haven’t been tested in the United States since 1992. Find out why, and what could happen if the hiatus ends.

Space agencies are moving closer to a new era of rocket propulsion that could fundamentally change deep-space travel. Nuclear ...

Routine reactor emissions pose no meaningful health risk to the US workers and population, a health physicist and a nuclear ...

This past semester, Kansas State University relaunched the nuclear engineering major that it discontinued in 1996. It has ...

Small Modular Reactors are pivoting the nuclear industry from custom-built energy cathedrals to factory-built energy ...