Small-scale nuclear reactors are a promising power source. But implementing them will require overcoming technical and ...

The Golden Chest Mine in the far northern reaches of Idaho seems an unlikely staging ground for clean power innovation. It is a throwback to an earlier era, the last hard rock gold mine in Idaho, ...

Two billion years ago, long before humans existed, the Earth created its own nuclear reactor. Discovered in Oklo, Gabon, this natural reactor produced nuclear fission in a way once thought impossible.

The challenge of how to train and develop the workforce needed for the proposed tripling of nuclear energy capacity by 2050 ...

Placing an atomic energy source on the lunar surface is “not science fiction,” experts say, but does pose technical challenges. By Kenneth Chang Nuclear reactors have been generating power on Earth ...