We’re seeing efforts to boost their power output, extend the lifetime of old reactors, and even reopen facilities that have shut down. That’s good news for climate action, because nuclear ...

Initially developed in the 1950s, molten salt reactors have benefits in higher efficiencies and lower waste generation. Some designs do not require solid fuel, which eliminates the need for ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. There’s no mystery as to why enthusiasm is building for small modular reactors, or SMRs. After all, large ...

How to store deadly radioactive waste until it is safe is a question that has dogged the nuclear industry since commercial reactors began operating in the 1950s. Finland is the only country close ...

PARIS, Jan 14 (Reuters) - France is "far from ready" to build six nuclear reactors, the state's top audit body said on Tuesday, underlining the challenges the country faces in rejuvenating its ...

China’s rapidly expanding nuclear power industry passed a major milestone on New Year’s Day, as the first reactor at a sprawling new plant on the country’s southeastern coastline started ...

The environment is the biggest concern most people have about nuclear power. It is possible for a reactor to melt down, leading to a runaway fission reaction that can spread radiation widely. This ...

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has been accused in a new lawsuit of hindering the nuclear energy industry, particularly smaller reactors, by imposing extensive time and cost licensing requirements.

After a long absence, Canada is back in the business of exporting nuclear reactors. In November, Montreal-based AtkinsRéalis Group Inc. (formerly SNC-Lavalin) announced it will participate in a ...

He then also later was with the Naval Reactors Branch, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, figuring into the "design and development of nuclear propulsion plants for naval vessels." This all led to the ...

The race to construct Canada’s first new nuclear power reactor in 40 years seems to have passed a point of no return. This summer, Ontario Power Generation completed regrading the site for its ...