Analytical chemist Friedrich Strassmann played a crucial role in discovering nuclear fission with Otto Hahn and Lise Meitner, but his principled opposition to Nazi ideology nearly destroyed his career ...

These methods are how the nuclear industry safely manages the 10,000 metric tons of spent fuel waste that reactors produce as they churn out 10% of the world’s electricity every ...

For decades, light water reactors have used control rods to regulate the fission reaction that powers a nuclear plant. The rods move vertically in and out of the core and are made of mat. . .

The DOE has approved INL’s MARVEL microreactor for a 2027 dry criticality test, with full-power operations expected by 2028.

The first data center to run entirely on self-generated nuclear power will shatter a long-held assumption that computing infrastructure must wait for the ...

South Carolina and the Aiken area are a welcoming environment for development of nuclear microreactors, Tom Mancinelli, head of federal strategy and policy for Antares, told members of ...

Oil prices are spiking again, this time because of the war unfolding in the Middle East. What would happen, however, if we could end our reliance on oil for good? People have been ...

Advanced computing is being utilized to predict a key occurrence in nuclear fission reactions, which could help improve energy production in future plants, according to a new stud ...

Imagine a scenario where nuclear weapons knowledge appears thousands of years before modern civilization. Teaching prehistoric humans the basics of uranium enrichment, nuclear fission, and ...

Natura Resources LLC (Natura), a developer of advanced liquid-fueled molten salt reactors, continues to make progress advancing the reactor physics and safety analysis underpinning its reactor ...

More than a year before his recent standoff with the Pentagon, Dario Amodei, the chief executive of Anthropic, published a 15,000-word manifesto describing a glorious AI future. Its title, “Machines ...

A materials expert told Friends of ORNL that advanced nuclear reactors need 21st-century materials to withstand extreme ...