The governor of Niigata has formally given local consent to put two reactors at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant in the north-central prefecture back online, clearing a last hurdle toward re ...

Scientists at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) have achieved a historic breakthrough in nuclear energy by launching ...

A new program at the Department of Energy is pushing the development of nearly a dozen new reactor designs at breakneck speed.

America’s energy system is colliding with hard limits, from aging grids to rising demand from data centers and electric ...

China has just crossed a threshold that many nuclear engineers have talked about for decades but no country had previously achieved at scale: turning thorium into a practical, operating source of low ...

China has launched the world's first commercial supercritical carbon dioxide (sCO 2) power generator, an innovative clean-energy breakthrough developed by the China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) ...

Industry Insight from Reuters Events, a part of Thomson Reuters. Leading U.S. small modular reactor developers have unveiled plans to deploy reactors in the UK and mainland Europe but they will face ...

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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 ...