From molten salt to TRISO fuel, here’s how technological advancements could upend an old power technology. Commercial nuclear reactors all work pretty much the same way. Atoms of a radioactive ...

The nuclear industry is in the midst of a renaissance. Old plants are being refurbished, and investors are showering startups with cash. In the last several weeks of 2025 alone, nuclear startups ...

A Bill Gates-backed nuclear reactor dubbed “Cowboy Chernobyl” by critics is barreling toward approval in rural Wyoming, alarming residents and nuclear safety experts as regulators fast-track the ...

Two billion years before we made history and split the atom, the Earth had already accomplished it and was running its own nuclear reactors. And they operated for hundreds of thousands of years, as ...

Management for Nano Nuclear talks a big game. It has plans to build tiny microreactors for nuclear energy, is working on energy-fuel transportation, Uranium enrichment, and is even studying the ...

If you have a redundant nuclear aircraft carrier lying around, you can give HGP Intelligent Energy a call. The Texas-based developer wants to repurpose the nuclear reactors used to power carriers to ...

A Russian cargo ship that sank to the bottom of the Mediterranean under unusual circumstances last year is believed to have been carrying parts for a type of naval nuclear reactor, according to a new ...

SEOUL, Dec 30 (Reuters) - South Korea gave the green light on Tuesday for the operation of a nuclear reactor with electricity output of 1,400 megawatts, the nuclear watchdog said, starting with a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Peter Suciu covers trends in the world of aerospace and defense. The final deployment of the USS Nimitz (CVN-68) came to an end ...

Surging demand for AI has sparked a race to secure supplies of nuclear power. WSJ’s Peter Landers traveled to the Fukushima exclusion zone in Japan to explore the challenges of atomic energy’s ...

Forward-looking: As more AI data centers are built and power demands increase, companies are looking toward unconventional means of supplying the required juice. One firm has proposed using the ...

A Texas power developer is proposing to use repurposed retired U.S. Navy nuclear reactors from aircraft carriers and submarines to supply continuous power to large-scale artificial intelligence data ...