Uncover the importance of nuclear energy (including both fission and fusion) to secure the U.S. energy future amidst ...

The feasibility of nuclear-powered energy sources is once again being considered by public utilities and other energy suppliers, as statewide goals for reducing carbon emissions ramp up.

"The blanket serves three main goals." Researchers ignite hope for future energy with high-tech 'blanket' breakthrough: ...

According to Chinese state media, a group of scientists recently managed to refuel a working thorium molten salt reactor ...

A pair of bills in the state Legislature would require the state to look for potential sites to put next-generation nuclear ...

Scientists in China have refuelled a thorium reactor on the fly for the first time. The breakthrough is paving the way for ...

Republican U.S. Rep. Chuck Fleischmann represents Tennessee’s 3rd District and is chairman of the newly formed American ...

Critics of the NRC say its red tape and lengthy authorization timelines stifle innovation, but handing some of its ...

Scientists have built the first-ever thorium reactor. Thorium is both more easily accessible and less dangerous than ...

Hawaii’s constitution prohibits nuclear power reactors, but with the state’s goal of reaching 100-percent renewable energy by ...

During nuclear fission, an unstable uranium atom is split in half, which releases a large amount of energy. Clean burning and effective, it takes only a small amount of uranium to create a large ...

India’s nuclear power sector, long cloaked in strategic caution and state monopoly, appears ready for a historic leap.