I’ve grown up with rockets that burn chemical fuel, but NASA’s next big leap in propulsion could make those engines look as dated as steam trains. By turning to nuclear power in space, the agency is ...

TerraPower begins construction of the first U.S. utility-scale advanced nuclear plant—can its Natrium design finally move ...

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COLLEGE STATION, Texas (KBTX) - Nuclear energy may play a major role in powering the future, and Texas A&M University staff say the future is already taking shape in the Brazos Valley. Texas A&M ...

The U.S. aims to significantly increase its nuclear energy capacity and accelerate the deployment of advanced nuclear technologies. Fluor is a global engineering and construction company emerging as a ...

Nuclear developer Holtec International gained up to $400 million in federal funding to build two units of its SMR-300 small modular nuclear reactor design at the site of the full-scale Palisades ...

NASA’s push for a new nuclear rocket engine is not just another upgrade to the hardware we strap to the bottom of spacecraft. It is an attempt to rewrite the basic rules of how far, how fast, and how ...