Nuclear power plants have been around since the 1950s exploiting a fission reaction, whereby the atom is split in a reactor, releasing a massive amount of energy in the process. Fission has the ...

A nuclear fusion reactor in China, dubbed the "artificial sun," has broken its own record to bring humanity one step closer ...

Hill Air Force Base could receive a portable nuclear reactor to provide backup power generation as early as 2028, Radiant ...

The lights are turning back on at Three Mile Island, the site of America's worst nuclear meltdown, after it has lain dormant for five years. WSJ goes inside to learn more about the delicate ...

General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) has successfully tested the nuclear fuel that may one day propel and power the spacecraft of the future. The trials verify that the fuel can survive ...

Carter began working with the Naval Reactors Branch of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission -- the Navy's nuclear submarine program -- in 1952. Jimmy Carter started his adult life as a young U.S ...

The peanut farmer turned president, who died Sunday at 100, put solar panels on the White House and once spent 89 seconds ...

Not even a spoonful of the fuel has been removed yet. About 880 tons of melted nuclear fuel remain inside the three damaged reactors, and Japanese officials say removing it would take 30-40 years.

Back in the 1950s, the U.S. started detonating nuclear bombs underground to limit the fallout, both radioactive and sociopolitical, unleashed by aboveground testing. Now a nuclear startup wants to ...