Its AP1000 reactor ran up huge costs and delays in Georgia. The company says now it’s learned from its mistakes and is ready ...

The small nuclear power plants will use molten salt in their fuel, making them safer and more versatile and portable than ...

The only difference is that the steam is made by the heat of the nuclear reaction instead of by burning coal or gas. To operate the reactor, you’ll turn on the coolant pumps and wait for the ...

The North Carolina-based company is developing small modular reactors and expects to net $280 million from the deal. Before ...

Leading players have significant financial backing already lined up, often from technology companies and future customers.

This means they use water as both a coolant and neutron moderator to control the nuclear reaction ... In Gen-IV reactors, we look at optimizing systems—like pumps, heat exchangers and the ...

Indiana Michigan Power announced Cook Nuclear Plant Unit 1 will begin its 30-second refueling outage on Saturday at 3 a.m.

A sign announces the closing of the observation center for the Three Mile Island nuclear plant in Pennsylvania, following an accident on Mar. 28, 1979. A pump failed in the reactor cooling system ...

In such a device, uranium fuel is mixed with various salts, such as lithium fluoride or sodium fluoride, that serve to suspend the nuclear fuel and act as the reactor’s main coolant. Terrestrial ...