A nuclear reactor is a device that generates heat through a controlled release of energy from splitting the atoms of certain elements. In nuclear power plants, the heat produces steam, which drives ...

This type of fast reactor is called a Fast-Neutron Reactor (FNR) and is essentially a different core configuration of the FBR design, with no fundamental differences.

Getting the construction permits took nearly two years. For the first time in 50 years, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has issued a construction permit for a new type of nuclear test reactor.

NASA and the U.S. Department of Energy say they have successfully tested a new type of nuclear reactor that could one day provide juice to colonies on other worlds. The reactor can power several ...

In addition to being a historic first design for small modular reactors, the NuScale model is also the seventh general nuclear reactor design ever greenlit by the U.S. government.

The types of reactors that melted down at Chernobyl are still running in other parts of Russia today. How do we know they’re safe?

The preliminary design of the Yanlong deep swimming pool-type low-temperature reactor for district heating has been completed.

MCRE will be the world’s first test of a fast-spectrum, salt-fueled reactor design. It is a public-private partnership led by ...

Despite international agreements to exclude nuclear power plants from war zones, Russia has recklessly attacked these facilities. Although nuclear power plants are designed to operate safely, in a war ...

It works by creating a thermonuclear reaction, the same process that powers our Sun, and containing it via superconducting magnets.