Students from Columbia Basin College in Pasco and WSU in the Tri-Cities and Pullman can use keyboards and monitors below the ...

TerraPower, a start-up founded by Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates, is set to build a new kind of nuclear ...

The TerraPower design, which it calls Natrium and has been developed jointly with GE Hitachi, has several novel features.

A new analysis based on an online simulation tool is raising fresh questions about where Americans might be safest if a nuclear war ever happened. The study points to a handful of U.S. states that ...

Munich-based Proxima Fusion has signed an agreement with the Free State of Bavaria, RWE, and Max Planck Institute for Plasma ...

The Northwest’s only commercial nuclear power plant, the Columbia Generating Station, was manually shut down early Thursday morning due to a mechanical problem. Energy Northwest workers shut the plant ...

The U.S. nuclear regulator said on Wednesday it approved construction for the Bill Gates-backed TerraPower small nuclear ...

The Norwegian government has given Norsk Kjernekraft approval to begin work on an impact assessment for a nuclear power plant in Aure and Heim municipalities, the first step in the licensing process ...

Japan's Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) has restarted Unit 6 of the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant, following a 14-year shutdown following the 2011 Fukushima disaster. The 1,360 MW ...

The world’s biggest nuclear power plant is again operating, after an earlier attempt to bring the facility back online was suspended due to an equipment problem. Unit 6 of the Kashiwazaka-Kariwa plant ...

What new nuclear technologies mean for safety, costs, and more. Nuclear power continues to be one of the hottest topics in energy today, and in our recent online Roundtables discussion about ...