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 ...

Imagine a future of clean energy. No longer do we need to belch out fossil fumes from power stations. The future is tightly run, perfectly safe, mini-reactors helping us live harmoniously together ...

OAK RIDGE, Tenn. — The U.S. Department of Energy awarded the Tennessee Valley Authority a $400 million grant to help develop small modular reactors. The department awarded a total of $800 million to ...

China’s Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics (SINAP) in November reported it had achieved thorium-to-uranium fuel conversion inside an operating molten salt reactor (MSR). The milestone provides the ...

Google was accused in a lawsuit of using its Gemini AI assistant to unlawfully track the private communications of users of its Gmail, instant messaging and videoconference programs. In the past, ...

Alex Knapp is a Forbes senior editor covering healthcare and science. The vast demand for electricity from the data centers powering the AI boom has led tech companies to invest in fusion power, which ...

Energy startup Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) said Thursday it’s working with Google’s DeepMind division to fine tune — and even improve — the operation of its forthcoming Sparc reactor using AI.

Microsoft founder and billionaire Bill Gates is helping to advance a growing source of nuclear energy with an overseas energy developer. The American businessman met Chung Ki-sun, vice chairman of ...

China’s ambitious plan to dramatically pull back from fossil fuels is perhaps most evident in the explosive growth of its nuclear energy program. The latest news suggests China may be tantalizingly ...

Researchers at the University of British Columbia have shown that a small bench-top reactor can enhance nuclear fusion rates by electrochemically loading a metal with deuterium fuel. Unlike massive ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Fear mongering stopped leaders from considering carbon-free power innovation this week. Rightwing climate deniers strike again? Nope. Agitation from the left ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Less than a week after announcing it would explore using nuclear power, Denver International Airport has put on hold plans to commission a study of the ...