The US Department of Energy (DOE) has officially greenlit a critical safety blueprint for ...

The Microsoft co-founder is betting next-generation nuclear reactors can power the AI boom while cutting carbon emissions.

TerraPower officially received a construction permit Monday for its first-of-a-kind Natrium reactor in Kemmerer. “This demonstrates advanced ...

Deep Fission, a California-based nuclear startup, has officially moved from concept to construction. The ...

Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory have unveiled a breakthrough ...

The $4 billion plant is due to be constructed by 2030 and may represent a new era for the US's nuclear industry.

On Wednesday, the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission announced that it had issued its first construction approval in nearly a decade. The approval will allow work to begin on a site in Kemmerer, Wyoming ...

Russian oil and gas face sanctions, but nuclear energy is another story. DW shows how far Moscow's influence extends and why countries continue to turn to it for nuclear energy.

Four nuclear reactors in Fukushima, Japan, exploded 15 years ago on March 11, 2011, touching off a nuclear catastrophe Japan ...

Running a nuclear power plant isn’t an easy task, even with the level of automation available to a 1980s Soviet RBMK reactor.

Few manmade threats inspire as much fear as the potential of a nuclear meltdown. The fact that "Chernobyl," once an obscure Ukrainian town, is now globally recognized as a synonym for catastrophe ...