Energy is released inside nuclear power plants through a controlled process that produces heat, which is then used to generate electricity ...

Federal efforts to accelerate nuclear energy development are starting to pay off, government and industry experts say, as the ...

May 24 (UPI) --President Donald Trump signed four executive orders to overhaul the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and hasten the process and deployment of new nuclear power reactors in the United ...

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has kicked off the Trump administration’s Nuclear Reactor Pilot Program, with plans to work with 11 advanced reactor projects to move their technologies towards ...

Beaver County’s tiny Shippingport, home to about 150 people, is positioned to become a center of Western Pennsylvania’s ...

Ten years ago this month, Tennessee Valley Authority officials projected electricity demand would grow at the slowest rate in TVA history over the next two decades. The federal utility's energy plan ...

New guidance for private industry plus a new test bed facility are set to speed widespread nuclear energy development in microreactors.

Uranium enrichment is a critical process that increases the concentration of Uranium-235, essential for both nuclear power generation and nuclear weapons. Various methods exist for enriching uranium, ...

The decommissioning process for the Fukushima Daiichi site and surroundings is scheduled to be completed by 2051. It will require many innovations, and careful planning. Here are some of the details ...

Yellow barrels of radioactive waste lined up on shelves - Onurdongel/Getty Images Nuclear energy isn't as clean as we like to believe. The associated power plants produce small amounts of nuclear ...

The process to restore external power to the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant in southeastern Ukraine has started, the director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said on October ...

The reactor at Bangladesh’s first nuclear power plant is expected to reach minimum controllable power level soon as commissioning progresses ...