The U.S. Department of Energy has made a surprising announcement: It's bringing nuclear energy into the modern era. Interesting Engineering reported that the DOE will conditionally provide high-assay ...

If conflict were to break out, the forces with assured access to electricity in all contested domains will prevail.

Uranium is back in focus as the world looks for reliable, low-carbon energy sources — and investors are taking notice. The ...

The U.S. is the world’s top producer of nuclear power with 94 reactors in operation. The country pioneered nuclear energy for civilian use in the late 1950s, but now relies on other countries for most ...

Two companies, TerraPower and Deep Fission, have proposed building advanced nuclear reactors in Kansas. TerraPower, ...

Giving a whole new meaning to underground power, startup Deep Fission Nuclear has secured US$30 million in funding to install a micro-reactor in a mile-deep borehole by July 4, 2026 as part of the US ...

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 ...

Here’s how a nuclear bomb actually works. The B61 and the B83 nuclear bombs currently in the United States’ arsenal are thermonuclear, or hydrogen bombs, and quite different than the fission weapons ...