Antares Nuclear achieved initial criticality of its Mark-0 reactor at Idaho National Laboratory earlier this week, making it ...
Nuclear science isn't an easy thing, particularly building a working reactor, but there are a small handful of adolescents ...
“We got neutrons, yeah!” The shout came after years of after-school effort inside a Dallas home, where a seventh grader had been quietly assembling a machine most people only encounter in advanced ...
A teenager's backyard nuclear experiment alarmed federal agencies and turned a suburban shed into a cleanup site.
Sometimes an idea is so elegant that it really deserves to work. One such is a proposal put forward by the boss of Deep Fission, an aspiring nuclear-power firm in Berkeley, California. Elizabeth ...
Top of an RBMK at the Leningrad plant. Control panels of a pre-digitalization nuclear plant look quite daunting, with countless dials, buttons and switches that all make perfect sense to a trained ...
The Department of Energy has made public a set of new rules that slash environmental and security requirements for experimental nuclear reactors. Last month, NPR reported on the existence of the rules ...