After a half-century hiatus, thorium has returned to the front lines of nuclear power research as a source of fuel. In 2025, China plans to start building a demonstration thorium-based molten-salt ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Though he started his naval career aboard diesel electric submarines, Lt. Carter began working with the Naval Reactors Branch of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission -- the Navy's nuclear submarine ...

The NRX research reactor suffered a partial meltdown after multiple fuel rods ruptured. The disaster left around 4.5 million liters of radioactive water sitting in the basement of the facility.

Electron runaway arises from plasma instabilities within fusion reactors. “Fusion reactors work by extracting tremendous sums of energy from the fusion of lighter atomic nuclei into a heavier ...

While in the Navy, Mr. Carter served on a military team that helped dismantle parts of a nuclear reactor at the Chalk River Laboratories in Ontario, Canada, after a partial meltdown in 1952.

The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) project agreement was formally signed in 2006 by the US, EU, Russia, China, India, and South Korea at the Elysée Palace in Paris.

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 ...