Increasing the chance of fusion means raising the density of nuclei in the apparatus as well as the length of time they ...

Building Nuclear Power in the U.S. Is Tough. NASA Wants to Do It on the Moon. Call it a nuclear moonshot: The U.S. aims to ...

Where do you put a nuclear reactor on the Moon? The nuclear reactor will likely form the power supply for the initial U.S.-led moon base that will support humans who'll stay for e ...

(The Conversation) – The first space race was about flags and footprints. Now, decades later, landing on the Moon is old news. The new race is to build there, and doing so hinges on power. While it ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Author: Michelle L.D. Hanlon, University of Mississippi The first space race was about ...

Space missions in the future could travel to Mars, asteroids and the outer solar system by riding on nuclear-powered rockets, ...

Oklo Inc.'s Aurora powerhouse at Idaho National Laboratory will generate 75MWe of clean power using sodium-cooled fast-reactor technology and create 370 jobs.

Congressional legislators, state leaders, and Idaho National Laboratory officials gathered outside of Idaho Falls Monday to ...

The Utah governor attended the groundbreaking ceremony for the Oklo nuclear facility, alongside Gov. Brad Little (R-ID).