Nuclear Energy on the Half-Shell Two men look at the bottom half of the reactor-to-be at the Dounreay atomic power plant in Scotland, a steel ball 135 feet wide, made of welded plates, in 1956.

Inside the world's first nuclear reactor that will power Earth using the same energy as the Sun. ... hydrogen atoms at its core are fused by the sheer amount of gravitational pressure.

Idaho National Lab partners with Clean Core to test a new thorium-based nuclear fuel that may improve safety, cut waste, and ...

Two full-size reactors in Georgia, the first new nuclear plants to be constructed in decades, took 15 years to build, seven years behind schedule, and cost twice their $14 billion budget. SMRs are ...

The photos were the first from inside the main structural support called the pedestal in the hardest-hit No. 1 reactor's primary containment vessel, an area directly under the reactor's core.

The Northwest’s only commercial nuclear power plant reconnected to the electric grid Sunday morning after a short shutdown, ...

In the Shidao Bay test, two pebble-bed reactors connected to a 210-MWe steam turbine moderated their own nuclear reactions and safe temperatures were maintained, with the core shutting down in ...

In a commercial warehouse overlooking the ocean in New Zealand’s capital Wellington, a startup is trying to recreate the power of a star using an unconventional “inside out” reactor with a ...

Inside the world's first nuclear reactor that will power Earth using the same energy as the Sun ... hydrogen atoms at its core are fused by the sheer amount of gravitational pressure.