LYNCHBURG, Va. (WDBJ) - Backers of a major energy project hope to power homes and businesses in Campbell County with Nuclear Energy. Appalachian Power has plans to build a small modular reactor in the ...

The U.S. Navy confirmed the new Trump class battleships will be nuclear-powered. The decision is set to raise demand for the ...

Advanced nuclear technology firm Oklo has broken ground on its inaugural 75-MWe sodium-cooled fast reactor at an Idaho National Laboratory (INL) site. The project—one of three awarded to the company ...

The two publicly traded companies will “develop a best-in-class pairing of future data centers with co-located advanced ...

A nuclear reactor vendor, a utility and a power customer all working in Tennessee have entered a partnership they say provides a model for meeting the insatiable electricity needs of U.S. data centers ...

A North Carolina-headquartered developer of small modular nuclear power plants announced it has an agreement with the U.S. Dept. of Energy (DOE) for an initiative to build and operate a molten salt ...

HFIR reactor operators working from a motorized bridge use hand tools that are 30 feet long to work on the reactor core submerged in a pool 17 feet deep. Veterans of the U.S. Navy’s Nuclear Propulsion ...

Reactor operators work 20 feet above the pool with specialized tools. The blue glow, or Cherenkov radiation, occurs when charged particles from radioactive decay exceed the speed of light in water.

Arkansas’ only nuclear plant is back online after one of its units was shut down for a major maintenance project.

What Happened: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) approved a final rule (that has subsequently been republished with minor corrections) establishing long-awaited 10 CFR Part 53, a new, ...

TOKYO (AP) — The world’s largest nuclear power plant restarted Wednesday in north-central Japan for the first time since the 2011 Fukushima nuclear meltdown, as resource-poor Japan accelerates atomic ...