French startup Stellaria is asking regulators for permission to build an experimental fast-neutron molten salt reactor that ...

International regulators are increasingly cooperating to evaluate the safety of new small modular reactor ...

Nuclear-powered dynamic positioning vessels are technically feasible and achievable, according to results from the ...

Nuclear engineering is an interdisciplinary field that underpins the design, operation and maintenance of nuclear reactors and fuel cycles, integrating fundamental physics, advanced materials science ...

Rolls-Royce SMR, the company tasked with building the next generation of nuclear reactors in ...

Small nuclear reactors are pitched as cheaper, safer, faster and easier to finance than their conventional counterparts. Hype around them is building fast, but some experts warn it ignores fundamental ...

From Arctic research stations to isolated mine sites, the hardest places on the planet to power have long depended on diesel drums and fragile supply chains. A new generation of portable nuclear ...

NASA engineers have completed first cold-flow tests of a full-scale nuclear thermal propulsion reactor, validating designs ...

Nuclear propulsion and power technologies could unlock new frontiers in missions to the moon, Mars, and beyond. NASA has reached an important milestone advancing nuclear propulsion that could benefit ...

An Amentum-led consortium has won a $207m contract to support planning and development of new nuclear reactors in the ...

NASA and the US Department of Energy have reaffirmed their joint project to develop a nuclear fission reactor for the surface of the Moon. According to an announcement from the space agency, the two ...

Cold-flow tests at NASA Marshall demonstrated the stability of a nuclear propulsion design aimed at reducing travel times to the moon and Mars.