Commercial nuclear reactors all work pretty much the same way. Atoms of a radioactive material split, emitting neutrons.

New reactors use novel materials and compact designs to make nuclear power safer and cheaper. Nuclear power has been a ...

INDIANAPOLIS — On Tuesday, Nov. 4, First American Nuclear (FANCO) announced they were moving to Indiana and planning to build their first energy park using their EAGL-1 small modular reactors (SMRs).

As U.S. electricity demand rises and technology companies seek to build more and larger data centers to drive artificial intelligence systems, the main question arising is how to generate all that ...

China's EAST nuclear fusion reactor has successfully kept plasma stable at extreme densities, passing a major fusion ...

Deep Fission is betting that the safest place for a nuclear reactor is not behind thicker concrete walls but a mile beneath our feet. The California startup wants to sink compact power plants into ...

What if the solution to two of humanity’s most urgent crises, freshwater scarcity and rising energy demands, was hiding in plain sight? Imagine a world where the same technology that powers cities ...

BEHIND THICK security doors in a windowless basement at Purdue University’s West Lafayette campus sits Indiana’s only atomic reactor. Commissioned in 1962, it’s both an artifact from a long-gone era ...