A Bill Gates-backed nuclear reactor dubbed “Cowboy Chernobyl” by critics is barreling toward approval in rural Wyoming, alarming residents and nuclear safety experts as regulators fast-track the ...

The New Safe Confinement structure over Reactor 4 allows scientists unprecedented access to a site long shrouded in danger. This piece details the radioactive debris, damaged core, and containment ...

National Geographic Explorer Paolo Verzone provides a rare peek inside a stellarator, an experiment that aims to give the world near-limitless clean energy. When in operation, this space inside the ...

Scientists at China’s Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) program rang in the new year with a stunning accomplishment: empirical evidence that they used the device to achieve nuclear ...

Scientists are uncovering new clues that a cosmic explosion may have rocked Earth at the end of the last ice age. At major Clovis-era sites, researchers found shocked quartz—evidence of intense heat ...

A Russian cargo ship that sank to the bottom of the Mediterranean under unusual circumstances last year is believed to have been carrying parts for a type of naval nuclear reactor, according to a new ...

If you have a redundant nuclear aircraft carrier lying around, you can give HGP Intelligent Energy a call. The Texas-based developer wants to repurpose the nuclear reactors used to power carriers to ...

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Companies like Kairos Power are building new types of reactors with the encouragement of the Trump administration, but their success is far from assured. By Ivan Penn Reporting from Oak Ridge, Tenn.; ...