In 1989, the Komsomolets burst into flames and sank, taking with it the plutonium in its nuclear reactor and two nuclear ...

NASA’s new exploration strategy includes the rapid development of a nuclear-powered mission to Mars in 2028, leveraging ...

Nearly 40 nations — including the United States, Japan, South Korea and China — have joined a global push to triple installed ...

A new partnership between tech giants aims to replace manual regulatory reviews with AI-driven document drafting and unified ...

NASA plans to launch a nuclear-powered spacecraft to Mars by 2028, a major step for deep space exploration and its planned ...

But what should NASA do with hardware already built for the Gateway outpost? NASA spent close to $4.5 billion on developing a ...

A high-resolution sonar scan of Komsomolets on the seafloor of the Norwegian Sea, also showing Ægir 6000 during operations ...

Carolyn Krause is exploring what’s happening in Oak Ridge. She has read that new companies are investing in building facilities on Oak Ridge land partly for creating tomorrow’s nuclear reactors and ...

The United States has taken a step toward a 21st-century renaissance in civilian nuclear power as the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has given the go-ahead for TerraPower's Natrium Gen IV reactor ...

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) gave TerraPower the go-ahead this week to build a new nuclear reactor in the shadow of an aging coal power plant in Wyoming. TerraPower’s permit is the first to ...

TerraPower CEO Chris Levesque displays a fuel assembly model for its planned small nuclear reactors in 2022. (Elaine Thompson/AP) Something shocking happened this week: Bureaucrats approved a project ...