U.S. states are positioning themselves to compete for newer, cheaper nuclear reactors being developed as communities and tech giants compete in a race for electricity.

While this concept sounds similar to that of a nuclear power plant, RTGs work on a different principle. Most RTGs are built using plutonium-238 as their source of energy, which is not usable for ...

A supplier of fuel for nuclear power plants has announced a $60 million expansion in Tennessee, promising more manufacturing of high-tech centrifuges there to enrich uranium ...

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Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), the operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, used the remote control robot Telesco to successfully extract a melted nuclear particle from one of ...

France is the only nuclear power in the European Union. Macron, in a televised address ahead of a special European summit Thursday, described Russia as a “threat to France and Europe,” and sai ...

Mr Kean told the ABC's Q+A on Monday the federal Liberal Party proposal for replacing coal-fired power plants with nuclear reactors was too expensive for governments and consumers. "I'm not anti ...

Five years ago today, the former chief executive of NuGen, Tom Samson, launched a new venture aimed at developing mini nuclear power stations across the UK, including Cumbria. His new company ...

That's the nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania whose reactor #2 had a partial meltdown in 1979. There were no injuries, and nobody died, but it set the nuclear industry back years. Only two new ...

The World Bank approved its first — and last — loan for nuclear power in 1959, helping to fund Italy’s first atomic plant. It explicitly excludes nuclear technology from current lending ...

This process takes the "high-level waste" from existing nuclear fuel that comes from nuclear generating plants and creates ... the big impediments of nuclear power because of that long ...

But will the future of nuclear power be dominated by emerging technologies like modular reactors, new mega-projects like Plant Vogtle, or the revitalization of old and decommissioned nuclear fleets?