Months after satellites picked up a massive nuclear fusion facility in China's Sichuan province, the country's nuclear ...

The small nuclear power plants will use molten salt in their fuel, making them safer and more versatile and portable than ...

The forging of parts of the reactor pressure vessel for unit six of Hungary's Paks nuclear power plant - the second unit of ...

After years of research and US data analysis, China has built a working thorium reactor and run it through a successful fuel ...

Workers installed the 42-foot reactor pressure vessel on Tuesday night. The 500-tonne steel container will be used to safely house nuclear fuel. This in turn will heat water into steam that drives ...

The first dismantling of a commercial reactor in Japan has started, ushering in a new period of decommissioning but with the ...

The electricity needed to power huge data centres has sparked a renewed interest in the potential of small modular reactors.

The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) has given Ontario Power Generation (OPG) the green light to begin building a ...

Globally, around 430 nuclear reactors are in operation ... However, critical components such as the reactor pressure vessel and containment vessel cannot be replaced, and inspections will rely ...

The nuclear ... Each of those reactors can generate 1,114 megawatts of electricity, enough for more than 800,000 homes. "Doing these new builds with that older, high pressure technology is just ...

The operator of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear ... inside No. 2 reactor has successfully grabbed a small amount of fuel debris left at the bottom of a containment vessel.