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

You might imagine nuclear power plants as behemoth facilities spanning hundreds of acres. Nuclear microreactors, by contrast, could sit on land the size of a football field and power a whole town.

Ethiopia plans to begin generating nuclear electricity within a decade in order to meet growing energy demand.

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

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Nuclear power cannot be built fast enough, or affordably enough, to supply data centers with the power they need right now.

Newcleo, a European developer of advanced nuclear reactors, and the Japanese Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) have signed a collaboration agreement to test key materials for newcleo’s Lead-cooled Fast ...

The plant brings together two different nuclear technologies in one complex. It combines the Hualong One pressurised water ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Philippines is ready to use nuclear energy responsibly to address power issues hounding far-flung areas, and even in the cities, House Speaker Faustino “Bojie” Dy III told ...

If you would like to learn more about the IAEA’s work, sign up for our weekly updates containing our most important news, multimedia and more. On the sidelines of the IAEA General Conference yesterday ...

Look, we have an actual example of AI use (Claude) for nuclear health-and-safety related purposes, by the director of Idaho National Laboratory (and a bunch of other employees), linked above in the ...