Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NBC News' Ellison Barber talks to MIT Professor of Nuclear Science Jacopo Buongiorno about the U.S. airlifting nuclear reactors ...

Liquid-fueled molten-salt reactors, another new type, could increase waste volume too. In these designs, fuel and coolant are not kept separate as in most reactors; instead, the fuel is dissolved ...

Questions remain days after MIT nuclear physicist Nuno F.G. Loureiro was gunned down in his Brookline, Massachusetts apartment building. The biggest question is why? Sign up for our Newsletters ...

Today, there are 94 nuclear reactors operating in the United States, more than in any other country in the world, and these ...