Running a nuclear power plant isn’t an easy task, even with the level of automation available to a 1980s Soviet RBMK reactor.

This story is part of a series called Shockwave: Rising energy demand and the future of the Great Lakes. The Great Lakes region is in the midst of a seismic energy shakeup, from skyrocketing data ...

Industry Insight from Reuters Events, a part of Thomson Reuters. The ten nuclear developers working under a U.S. federal program to accelerate the deployment of small modular reactors are making ...

What does it take to land a top recruiting class in the Big Ten? For one program, the answer is a $12 million spending spree and 35 signatures. And it’s not the team you think. The USC Trojans are the ...

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has issued its first construction permit for a commercial nuclear reactor in eight years.

Small, possibly portable, nuclear reactors that can’t melt down are moving toward reality in the United States, with what may be the first two coming online or beginning construction this year. The US ...

The recruitment of the nation's premier prospect has taken a volatile turn following a significant departure from the coaching staff. For a program looking to cement a historic recruiting class, the ...

The Department of War on Sunday transported a next-generation nuclear reactor aboard a C-17 from California to Utah, advancing President Donald Trump’s executive order to modernize America’s nuclear ...

The deadly mass shooting at a school in British Columbia came as Canadian authorities face significant obstacles in rolling out a nationwide firearms buyback that is mired in practical and logistical ...

HILL AIR FORCE BASE, Utah—The U.S. military airlifted a modern nuclear reactor on Sunday for the first time, part of President Trump’s push to deploy nuclear power across the United States. Three C-17 ...

The last column was about nuclear plants seeing a resurgence all around the world. All these plants rely on fission as the process to generate electricity, fission being the splitting of (usually) a ...

A next-generation nuclear reactor left March Air Reserve Base, Calif., on Sunday in a first-of-its-kind airlift. The modules of the reactor were loaded aboard three C-17 Globemaster III aircraft, and ...