TerraPower officially received a construction permit Monday for its first-of-a-kind Natrium reactor in Kemmerer. “This demonstrates advanced ...

The Pentagon and the Energy Department have airlifted a small nuclear reactor from California to Utah, demonstrating what they say is potential for the U.S. to quickly deploy nuclear power for ...

Russian oil and gas face sanctions, but nuclear energy is another story. DW shows how far Moscow's influence extends and why countries continue to turn to it for nuclear energy.

Few manmade threats inspire as much fear as the potential of a nuclear meltdown. The fact that "Chernobyl," once an obscure Ukrainian town, is now globally recognized as a synonym for catastrophe ...

To address the challenges of energy security and greenhouse gas emissions, the Greek government decided to take a step that would have caused strong reactions a few years ago: to open the debate on ...

A California-based nuclear startup has reached a hallowed milestone that could accelerate the development of more sustainable energy sources. Per Interesting Engineering, Valar Atomics announced it ...

The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) remains the cornerstone of global efforts to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons. Adopted in 1970, the NPT’s objectives are threefold: ...

Last year’s joint attack by Israel and the US saw the deployment of 30,000-pound bunker-busting bombs targeting Iranian ...

That something is nuclear propulsion. Essentially, a nuclear rocket engine is a reactor that has hydrogen running through it as a propellant, which is heated to an astonishing 3,000 K (2,727 °C, 4,940 ...

Nuclear astrophysics is dedicated to unravelling the complex nuclear processes that govern stellar evolution, explosive cosmic events and the synthesis of elements throughout the Universe. Central to ...