Running a nuclear power plant isn’t an easy task, even with the level of automation available to a 1980s Soviet RBMK reactor.

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Ion beams can now qualify nuclear reactor materials up to 1,000 times faster than ...

When the second reactor opened at Connecticut’s Millstone Nuclear Power Station on Sept. 26, 1975, nuclear power was at the height of a golden age in the United States. Millstone, situated on a ...

Experts can still only guess at what caused the mysterious damage to the support foundation of the No. 1 reactor at the ...

An innovative algorithm for detecting collisions of high-speed particles within nuclear fusion reactors has been developed, inspired by technologies used to determine whether bullets hit targets in ...

WSU's Nuclear Science Center is in the middle a new 5,000 square foot expansion. Once it's done, the $7.6 million project will be the home of three new hot cells.

X-energy, a Maryland-based nuclear technology firm, is betting that a reactor fueled by tiny, heat-resistant particles can eliminate the risk of a core meltdown entirely. That claim, if validated at ...