From molten salt to TRISO fuel, here’s how technological advancements could upend an old power technology. Commercial nuclear reactors all work pretty much the same way. Atoms of a radioactive ...

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. Last August U.S. Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy, who at the time was also the acting administrator of NASA, ...

Nuclear energy is often regarded as the cleanest power source on Earth. Unlike coal or gas, nuclear power plants don't release smoke and other contaminants into the air. They produce massive amounts ...

As U.S. electricity demand rises and technology companies seek to build more and larger data centers to drive artificial intelligence systems, the main question arising is how to generate all that ...

Illinois electricity providers caution that increasing nuclear power alone won’t be enough to solve the state’s looming energy challenges.