The announcement comes just days after NPR revealed the administration had secretly rewritten safety and environmental standards.

A powerful, open-source software package named OpenMC has emerged as a cornerstone in the ...

A company with a vision of installing “discreet, bespoke,” small, nuclear reactors 1 mile underground for data centers and other electricity-hungry industries plans to put its first reactors in Kansas ...

The Department of Energy has announced a "categorical exclusion for authorisation, siting, construction, operation, ...

On February 2, 2026, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced a new categorical exclusion (CATEX) under the National Environmental Policy ...

NASA and the US Department of Energy have reaffirmed their joint project to develop a nuclear fission reactor for the surface ...

Building on past use of nuclear systems, NASA and the Department of Energy are developing small nuclear fission reactors for the Moon to provide reliable, long-duration power for future Artemis missio ...

Deep Fission is betting that the safest place for a nuclear reactor is not behind thicker concrete walls but a mile beneath our feet. The California startup wants to sink compact power plants into ...

PARSONS, Kan. (WIBW) — A groundbreaking ceremony is set for next week on an underground nuclear reactor in southeast Kansas, officials said. Deep Fission Inc., based in Berkeley, California, announced ...

A reactor at the world’s largest nuclear power plant that restarted for the first time since the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster is now being shut down again due to a glitch that occurred hours after ...