Solar panels are next to useless in the outer solar system, so NASA’s Voyager probes rely on nuclear batteries—technology ...

Nuclear fission reactors struggle with two key problems: poor fuel utilization and complicated radioactive waste handling. To ...

How do we power missions in the outer reaches of our solar system and beyond? The solution, developed in the '60s, can last ...

Pike County residents are no strangers to concerns about nuclear contamination. For decades, the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant has been a focal point of radiation exposure ...

The bulk of the DOE’s nuclear work is done by around 60,000 contract workers. The people who build the missiles, dig the ...

Firings and buyouts hit the top-secret National Nuclear Security Administration amid a major effort to upgrade America’s ...

Talks about African countries developing nuclear power plants have been on the upswing, with more States keying into them in ...

Rocky Flats has evolved from being a producer of plutonium for nuclear weapons to becoming a refuge for wildlife. After ...

Members of our Community Editorial Board, a group of community residents who are engaged with and passionate about local ...

A wildlife corridor plans to connect two Superfund sites at the former Rocky Flats plutonium plant and the Rocky Mountain ...