By Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON, June 15 (Reuters) - The Trump administration is moving forward with talks with companies to ...

For years, the federal government has been working on turning old, unexploded warheads left over from the Cold War into a fuel for next-generation nuclear power.

In the next few decades, many physicists are hopeful that nuclear fusion could become a realistic source of practically ...

Debris is still raining down on Earth more than 100 million years after the giant cosmic explosion that created it. A study ...

Advanced nuclear technology firm Oklo and TRISO nuclear fuel producer Standard Nuclear have finalized ...

The Trump administration’s plan to offer plutonium from dismantled Cold War–era nuclear weapons to private energy companies is drawing criticism from experts who say it makes little economic sense ...

By Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON, May 26 (Reuters) - The U.S. said on Tuesday it had chosen five companies, including Oklo, to enter advanced talks over potentially using its Cold War-era plutonium as a ...

By Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON, May 26 (Reuters) - Nuclear power company Oklo said on Tuesday it was one of five companies to have been picked by the U.S. Energy Department for advanced talks on taking ...

A research team at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) recently documented the electronic behavior ...

WASHINGTON — NASA is facing the prospect of trying to explore deep space without the aid of the long-lasting nuclear batteries it has relied upon for decades to send spacecraft to destinations where ...

The Windscale Pile No. 1 operated for seven years—until a runaway fire released radioactive fallout.

Plutonium can be used to make nuclear bombs. But it can also be recycled and used as a fuel in nuclear reactors. According to the authors of a Nature editorial, the UK—which has the largest civilian ...