Duke Energy's nuclear plant in Brunswick County is turning 50 years old. Here are a few things to know about the site.

Nuclear energy is staging a comeback powered by surging demand for carbon-free electricity. One company is selling super-safe ...

Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) recently started examining several new fuel rods developed by GE Vernova’s Global Nuclear Fuel (GNF) that could help boost the performance of nuclear power plants.

Palisades Nuclear Plant receives 68 new fuel assemblies as it moves toward becoming the first shuttered U.S. nuclear facility to restart operations.

Flow-induced vibration (FIV) poses a substantial challenge in nuclear reactor design, particularly in the context of fuel rod assemblies. These vibrations arise from the complex fluid–structure ...

A worker fell into the nuclear reactor at the controversial Palisades Power Plant in Michigan, where they drank a little ...

The fuel rods are exposed again. Japanese officials are saying that fuel rods are melting inside all three nuclear reactors. Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano just said: “Although we cannot directly ...

An innovative company called Deep Fission has come up with a plan for a new generation of nuclear reactors. As The Economist reported, the company wants to build a reactor at the bottom of a mile-deep ...

Russia's Balakovo 1 underwent a sudden shutdown late on 29 January as control rods were found to be in an irregular position. Russia's Balakovo 1 underwent a sudden shutdown late on 29 January as ...

Westinghouse Electric Co. and CORE POWER said the companies have formalized a deal for the design and development of a floating nuclear power plant (FNPP) using the Westinghouse eVinci microreactor.