The White House has now ordered federal agencies to get a nuclear reactor ready to power the Moon by 2030, turning a ...

The United States flew a reactor in space in the 1960s and has studied nuclear thermal propulsion for decades. Fuel is not the primary limitation either; the enriched uranium supply chain is ...

Lise Meitner, a brilliant physicist, was instrumental in understanding nuclear fission but was overlooked for the Nobel Prize ...

Scientists in the US have developed a new glowing surrogate nuclear reactor that replaces ...

This relatively long transit time is a result of the use of traditional chemical rocket fuel. An alternative technology to the chemically propelled rockets the agency develops now is called nuclear ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lise Meitner was left off the publication that eventually led to a Nobel Prize for her colleague. That all changed on Feb. 11, ...

The nation's top regulatory body for nuclear power plants and other nuclear materials, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, has officially voted to regulate nuclear fusion differently than fission. The ...

Startup investors are increasingly turning to nuclear fusion and fission startups to supply our power-hungry era, and they’re not afraid to write big checks. The latest evidence of that confidence is ...

Nuclear fusion combines light hydrogen atoms to release energy, similar to the sun's processes. Fusion reactors are ...

Facing massive energy demand from the AI boom, nations are re-embracing nuclear power, with next-generation technologies like ...

Deep fission raises $80 million to expand its underground SMR technology and scale clean energy deployments across the United ...