Published May 1 in the Federal Register with a 42-day comment, the proposed Part 57 rule outlines a “streamlined, risk-informed and flexible licensing pathway” NRC claims could save up to $11.8 ...

New concepts for advanced reactors are thriving, and boosted by new government funding, but there are serious detriments to ...

The United States has received 1.7 metric tons of high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU) from ...

TerraPower has begun construction on Kemmerer Unit 1 at its Natrium nuclear power plant in Wyoming. Kemmerer Unit 1 is set to ...

TerraPower begins construction of the first U.S. utility-scale advanced nuclear plant—can its Natrium design finally move ...

Nuclear reactors generate reliable, low-carbon electricity by using heat from nuclear fission to turn turbines. These steady ...

Steven J. Zinkle is East Tennessee’s world-class materials scientist on a mission. He wants to make sure that the nuclear companies with stakes in the Oak Ridge nuclear energy hub will be successful.

In what the company described as a response to “rapid” growth in Texas, advanced reactor company Natura Resources announced the deployment of two advanced nuclear projects in the state. The ...

Nuclear engineering has demonstrated vast potential for growth in power generation, medicine, industrial processes, plasmas, space technologies and national defense. The field will become even more ...

This past semester, Kansas State University relaunched the nuclear engineering major that it discontinued in 1996. It has already attracted more than 50 students. College students at Kansas State ...