Small modular reactor startups are betting that mass manufacturing will help them bring costs down. But are they ...

Why it matters: A new Department of Energy pilot program is testing a faster, less traditional path for bringing advanced nuclear reactors from concept to operation, reshaping long-standing ...

The graduation wraps a multiyear partnership under Shell’s chemical decarbonization innovation program, designed to identify and advance emerging technologies with potential to reduce carbon intensity ...

For decades, nuclear physicists believed that "Islands of Inversion"—regions where the normal rules of nuclear structure suddenly break down—were found mostly in neutron-rich isotopes. In these ...

The Unit 2 reactor at the Shimane nuclear power station resumed operation in January 2025, more than a decade after it, and all other reactors in Japan, were taken offline. Japanese officials want ...

WASHINGTON — As part of next steps for the Janus Program, the Department of the Army has selected nine installations for consideration in which to site microreactor power plants, and the Defense ...

A Trump administration pilot program aims for three nuclear startups to reach a key milestone by July 4, 2026. Valar Atomics says it’s the first to do so—but it had some help. It’s also, more ...

Iran has not enriched any uranium in the country since the U.S. struck several of its nuclear sites earlier this year, Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has said, as Tehran once again batted away the ...

Iran’s deputy foreign minister Saeed Khatibzadeh has described his country’s nuclear program as still “intact” despite admitting that US and Israeli strikes badly damaged facilities earlier this year.

U.S. strikes in June destroyed key Iranian nuclear facilities, halting enrichment and scattering debris across the sites. Satellite imagery analyzed by CSIS shows rapid underground construction at ...

Industry Insight from Reuters Events, a part of Thomson Reuters. A new state-run program to produce advanced nuclear fuels should help forge a U.S. supply chain that clears a major hurdle for small ...