The Department of Energy has awarded $29 million to Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility and a group of partner ...

General Atomics and NASA have successfully tested a new type of nuclear thermal propulsion reactor fuel at the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama. The new fuel could help power propulsion ...

Testing has begun on VVER-type fuel elements with uranium-plutonium mixed-oxide fuel in the MIR research reactor. Based on the results of irradiation and tests, scientists "intend to substantiate the ...

Nuclear fuel company Clean Core Thorium Energy announced its patented ANEEL fuel has successfully reached more than 60 ...

The Department of Energy announced in May 2025 that it had selected eight companies to share more than $94 million in federal ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Russia’s state atomic energy corporation – Rosatom – has announced the beginning of pilot ...

The results are good news for the thorium-HALEU fuel cycle, set to grow in relevance as advanced reactors grow smaller and abundant. Reading time 2 minutes Last year, a private-public collaboration ...

The fuel was subjected to full reactor heat and hydrogen gas and kept there for 20 minutes – about what a nuclear engine would have to endure during a boost maneuver. Other tests looked at how the ...

Bangor University scientists think that the way to go big with nuclear power is to, in fact, go small. Their tiny nuclear fuel pellets called triso fuel are said to be the size of poppy seeds and are ...

Nuclear power plants are safer than many suspect. But putting reactors in space is a concept with a checkered history. One ...

Uranium is expected to face a widening long‑term supply deficit over the coming decades due to rising demand, analysts say.

The Trump administration has called for a “wholesale revision” of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to speed the rollout of new reactors. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission on Friday approved its first ...