Plutonium 'pits' and Small Modular Reactors are all part of Energy Secretary Chris Wright's early goals for his department.

A union is calling for radioactive plutonium at a nuclear plant to be recycled into new nuclear fuel instead of stored. In ...

A team led by Su-Il In, a professor at South Korea's Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology, is developing an ...

The Idaho National Laboratory (INL) has cleared a major hurdle in making a Generation IV nuclear reactor practical. Using a ...

Powering spacecraft with solar energy may not seem like a challenge, given how intense the sun's light can feel on Earth.

Because it decays slowly — with a half-life of 5,730 years — a radiocarbon battery could theoretically last millennia. That’s ...

A DOGE-driven mass firing of critical nuclear workers sparks alarm and leaves scars, as cost-cutting missteps throughout ...

A 24-year-old Australian man could go to jail for ten years as he prepares to plead guilty for importing plutonium from a ...

When the nucleus of a heavy atom, such as uranium or plutonium, is split into smaller parts (a process called nuclear fission), a huge amount of energy is released. This nuclear reaction is the ...

Oregon voters effectively banned all new nuclear energy facilities in 1980 ... to the Hanford Site in southeast Washington, a former plutonium manufacturing facility that remains heavily polluted ...

India will manufacture five indigenous small modular reactors with private sector involvement to boost its nuclear energy ...