Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. Last August U.S. Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy, who at the time was also the acting administrator of NASA, ...

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Advanced nuclear reactor company X-energy began trading Friday as the AI boom and electrification broadly spark a flurry of interest in the nuclear industry. The stock opened at $30.11, after upsizing ...

Nuclear fusion may be closer to commercialization than previously thought, with private firms targeting operational reactors in the early 2030s. Major technical and economic hurdles remain, including ...

The White House is moving to fast-track nuclear power development in space, laying out a detailed road map with firm agency roles and time frames to put reactors on the moon and in orbit within the ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.— Launch nuclear reactors to orbit as soon as 2028 and to the Moon as soon as 2030—that’s the White House’s new order to the Pentagon and NASA. The six-page policy memo released ...

“Marketplace” host Kai Ryssdal talks with the CEO of Radiant Nuclear about trying to make portable microreactors for data centers, military bases, and more. The volatility of energy prices has been ...

Explore how fusion reactors, ITER tokamaks, plasma confinement, and deuterium tritium fuel work together to unlock net energy gain and deliver reliable, large-scale clean energy. Pixabay, ...

Additional nuclear power is coming to North Alabama and the result could be lower utility prices. President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi last week announced Japan’s ...

Mary Anne Zivnuska, left, is an alumna of the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program, and Asheesh Agarwal is an alumnus of the first Trump administration. Courtesy photos America’s most pressing ambitions — ...

Aalo Atomics has held a ceremony to unveil its completed Critical Test Reactor at the Idaho National Laboratory. The company said it expects the reactor to achieve criticality "well before" the 4 July ...

New designs mean new strategies for managing spent fuel. MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of technology to help you understand what’s coming next. You ...