I’ve grown up with rockets that burn chemical fuel, but NASA’s next big leap in propulsion could make those engines look as dated as steam trains. By turning to nuclear power in space, the agency is ...

College students at Kansas State University are increasingly eyeing careers in nuclear technology. So the school has relaunched a bachelor’s degree that originally blazed a trail in the U.S. for ...

Nasa is developing ways to use nuclear power to send spacecraft to their destinations. Nuclear propulsion could greatly reduce the journey time to Mars, perhaps cutting a voyage of more than six ...

Section 1. Purpose. The United States originally pioneered nuclear energy technology during a time of great peril. We now face a new set of challenges, including a global race to dominate in ...

Nuclear energy technology firm Deep Fission and engineering and construction company Day & Zimmermann ...

This past semester, Kansas State University relaunched the nuclear engineering major that it discontinued in 1996. It has already attracted more than 50 students. College students at Kansas State ...

As part of its ambitious goals, the United States will look to quadruple its new nuclear energy capacity to 400 gigawatts (GW), have 10 large reactors under construction by 2030, and provide grants ...

Workers stand at the TerraPower Natrium plant site in Kemmerer, Wyo., where full construction has begun on the 345-MW advanced nuclear project following U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission permit ...

NASA’s push for a new nuclear rocket engine is not just another upgrade to the hardware we strap to the bottom of spacecraft. It is an attempt to rewrite the basic rules of how far, how fast, and how ...