China’s National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) has unveiled its design for a new next-generation nuclear reactor. Called a “crucial step” in the country’s future energy plans, the new reactor could ...

This April, in a speech given at the Shanghai branch of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the physicist Xu Hongjie announced a breakthrough. For over a decade, his team had been working on an ...

A few years ago, if someone told you the U.S. would be trying to catch up with China's nuclear energy program, you'd probably laugh. However, today America is moving at breakneck speed, with the ...

NASA should be ready to launch a small nuclear power plant to the moon by late 2029, the space agency's interim chief said. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, who is also serving as NASA's acting ...

As countries continue to strive for increasingly clean, pollution-free sources of energy, China's plan to transition away from coal is a unique one. According to Interesting Engineering, it is looking ...

China has confirmed a major milestone in nuclear science after achieving the world’s first successful conversion of thorium into uranium fuel inside a working molten salt reactor. The experimental ...

Sustainable nuclear power, and an internet connection from the moon to Earth, are vital precursor components to a permanent lunar settlement. America has (finally) formally committed to deploying a ...

Nuclear power on the moon is critical to the United States' space exploration and national security goals, and the U.S. government should "move quickly" to build reactors there before its terrestrial ...