Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Factories could one day produce and ship small nuclear reactors across the country. U.S. Department of Energy Office of Nuclear ...

June 26 (Reuters) - The World Bank and the United Nations nuclear watchdog on Thursday launched a new agreement to cooperate on the safe development and financing of nuclear power for developing ...

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. I’m ...

(Bloomberg) -- Much of the world had been turning away from traditional nuclear power in recent decades. Aging plants, high construction costs, security risks and radioactive-waste challenges caused ...