Campbell County Commissioners on Tuesday considered a ballot resolution asking people to vote on whether nuclear waste should ...

Trying to tie railroad accidents involving tank cars of chemicals with the risks of shipments to Yucca Mountain — and the fear of nuclear contamination from those shipments if such an accident ...

Atomic Canyon and INL have developed an open-source AI benchmark suite for nuclear applications to ensure safety, compliance, ...

In the 1950s, Soviet engineers developed the TES3, a nuclear-powered land train designed to supply energy in Siberia’s harsh landscapes. Using tank-based modules, this mobile reactor operated ...

Despite nuclear power’s unmatched ability to produce reliable, carbon-free energy at scale, it is often dismissed by clean energy advocates in favor of renewable resources like wind and solar. Cost ...

According to the Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI), with nuclear energy, the United States avoided more than 471 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions in a recent year. That’s the equivalent of ...

Cold fusion, one of the most notorious blunders in science, is making a return – of sorts. Scientists have resurrected an experiment that was once claimed to show room-temperature nuclear fusion, ...

Backers of nuclear energy envision dozens of shiny new nuclear reactors being built all over America over the next decade. For now, the nuclear renaissance looks more like a tag sale, where old ...

Growing up in Salt Lake City, Utah, in the 1950s and 60s, Mary Dickson was among the millions of American schoolchildren taught to “duck and cover” in the event of a nuclear war. “I just remember ...

Nuclear energy, left for dead over the past thirty years or so, is back. "There has been a huge policy shift globally and there is now bipartisan support for nuclear, and we need it," Jan VanEck, CEO ...

Shane Croucher is a Breaking News Editor based in London, UK. He has previously overseen the My Turn, Fact Check and News teams, and was a Senior Reporter before that, mostly covering U.S. news and ...