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

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

Update: Made a couple of corrections and added additional information. Carolyn Krause is exploring what’s happening in Oak Ridge. She has read that new companies are investing in building facilities ...

The world’s largest nuclear power station is edging back toward full operation in coastal Niigata, a turning point in the long and uneasy comeback of atomic energy in Japan. After more than a decade ...

Japan switched on the world's biggest nuclear power plant again on Monday, its operator said, after an earlier attempt was quickly suspended due to a minor glitch. A problem with a monitoring alarm in ...

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

Construction on the advanced Wyoming nuclear power plant is set to finish by 2030.

TerraPower’s project in Wyoming, which uses novel technology, is the first new commercial reactor to receive federal approval in nearly a decade.

On Wednesday, the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission announced that it had issued its first construction approval in nearly a decade. The approval will allow work to begin on a site in Kemmerer, Wyoming ...

It's the first permit to be issued by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in nearly a decade.

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

Kashiwazaki, a Japanese city hosting the world's largest nuclear-power plant, grapples with economic dependence on atomic energy while facing population decline and Tokyo's pull.