Southern Company's Plant Vogtle nuclear power complex made history in 2023 by bringing the first new U.S. nuclear reactor built from scratch in the past 30 years online, according to a Fortune report.

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Commercial nuclear reactors all work pretty much the same way. Atoms of a radioactive material split, emitting neutrons.

The United States is making a high‑stakes bet that money can buy its way out of a dangerous dependence on Russian nuclear ...

Radiant Nuclear is looking to change the energy landscape with its small modular reactors that aim to generate around 1.2 megawatts of electricity, with safety and efficiency at the forefront of its ...

An innovative algorithm for detecting collisions of high-speed particles within nuclear fusion reactors has been developed, inspired by technologies used to determine whether bullets hit targets in ...

When the second reactor opened at Connecticut’s Millstone Nuclear Power Station on Sept. 26, 1975, nuclear power was at the height of a golden age in the United States. Millstone, situated on a ...

Theoretically, there's no better, more practical source of reliable, carbon-free energy than the current generation of nuclear reactors. In practice, the theory holds water, but there are still a few ...

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 ...

Fabrication of the reactor core for the Project Pele prototype mobile microreactor - the first microreactor to be built and operated in the USA - has begun at BWX Technologies' Innovation Campus in ...