The NRC on March 4 authorized a construction permit for TerraPower's Kemmerer Power Station Unit 1—the first commercial ...

The construction permit to a subsidiary of Bill Gates’ TerraPower for a 345-MW commercial nuclear power plant project is the NRC’s first commercial reactor construction approval in nearly 10 years.

The DOE's Argonne National Laboratory has launched its Activated Materials Lab to study radiation effects in nuclear reactor ...

A huge nuclear deal announced by the Trump administration earlier this week provides a multi-billion-dollar incentive for the U.S. government to issue permits and approvals for new Westinghouse ...

A new study concludes that SMRs could support the decarbonisation of several energy intensive industries in North America and Europe.

For the first time, six organizations were awarded up to $2 million each from the state's Nuclear Energy Development Grant ...

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The Trump administration has created an exclusion for new experimental reactors being built at sites around the U.S. from a major environmental law. The law would have required them to disclose how ...

In A Nutshell Counties located closer to nuclear power plants in the U.S. had higher cancer death rates, according to a Harvard analysis of nearly two decades of national data. The association was ...

A pair of Harvard-led studies released in recent months found that people living closer to operational nuclear power plants ...