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 ...

A North Carolina-headquartered developer of small modular nuclear power plants announced it has an agreement with the U.S. Dept. of Energy (DOE) for an initiative to build and operate a molten salt ...

Scientists from the University of Cambridge have developed a new reactor that converts natural gas (a common energy source primarily composed of methane) into two highly valuable resources: clean ...

After years in the wilderness, it’s a good time to be a nuclear startup. “For the first half a decade that I was telling people I was doing nuclear, I had to convince them, ‘Hey, here’s why nuclear is ...

Scientists just brought us one step closer to the dream of unlimited power. On November 17 at the Nevada National Security Site, a nuclear energy startup called Valar Atomics achieved zero-power ...

Fig. 1. Synthesis and characterization of KfAQ and KfAQ-Pd. This work not only presents a new pathway to reduce the energy barrier for hydrogen extraction from water molecules but also offers valuable ...

China plans to launch commercial operations at the world’s first small modular reactor (SMR) to generate nuclear energy as early as in the first half of 2026, according to the president of the China ...

Parsons, Kansas, may be the site of a California startup’s first ever 1-mile-deep nuclear reactor — with support from county commissioners, both Republican Kansas U.S. senators and Democratic Gov.

PARSONS, Kan. (KWCH) - A nuclear energy company plans to break ground next week on a first-of-its-kind nuclear reactor in southeast Kansas. Deep Fission, Inc., based in Berkeley, Calif., selected the ...

The federal government is sending the nation's largest public utility a $400 million grant to propel the development of an advanced nuclear reactor in East Tennessee as power demand rises. The ...