Underground on Purdue University's campus is the only nuclear reactor of its kind in the U.S. Although used only for research ...

The largest technology companies are turning to nuclear power to feed the enormous electricity appetite of their artificial ...

The U.S. nuclear power regulator on Wednesday proposed narrowing the ‌scope of environmental reviews required under federal law for licenses for new and renewed reactors.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has proposed a major rewrite of its National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) rules, opening yet another front in ...

Four advanced nuclear reactors reached a self-sustaining chain reaction for the first time in the weeks before July 4, 2026, ...

A full-scale simulator of the control room for the lead-cooled fast neutron BREST-OD-300 reactor has been commissioned, ...

Recently, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission proposed a package of regulatory reforms it said would modernize reactor ...

Aalo Atomics’ Aalo-X Critical Test Reactor (CTR)—dubbed “Project First Light”—has reached criticality at Idaho National ...

A Florida energy startup pulled the cover off a basketball-sized silicon carbide sphere on July 1, 2026, and claimed a manufacturing milestone that the nuclear industry has been working toward for ...

The first shipment of fuel for full-power, full-temperature testing of Radiant's Kaleidos microreactor technology has been delivered to the National Reactor Innovation Center's Demonstration of ...

Radiant, a leading developer of advanced nuclear technologies, received its first tranche of nuclear fuel at the National Reactor Innovation Center’s Demonstration of Microreactor Experiments (DOME) ...

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission plans to end longstanding guidance that radiation exposure be “as low as reasonably achievable.” ...