Explore the potential of molten salt nuclear power technology, which aims to eliminate concerns about nuclear waste and disasters while providing nearly unlimited energy. This video discusses how ...

Six months in a nuclear reactor? This receiver chip can take it ...

Liquid-fueled molten-salt reactors, another new type, could increase waste volume too. In these designs, fuel and coolant are ...

This April, in a speech given at the Shanghai branch of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the physicist Xu Hongjie announced a breakthrough. For over a decade, his team had been working on an ...

Countries are racing to build new reactors. But we've barely figured out how to clean up the old ones — and the bill is potentially staggering.