The fragile global legal framework for nuclear weapons control faces further setbacks in 2026, eroding guardrails to avoid a nuclear crisis.

A new type of nuclear power technology — small modular reactors that promise to produce carbon-neutral energy more safely and efficiently than traditional nuclear power plants — is becoming closer to ...

Duke Energy seeks early site permit for potential nuclear project in North Carolina Duke Energy has submitted an early site permit application to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission for a site near ...

In December 2022, researchers at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's National Ignition Facility in California conducted a controlled nuclear fusion experiment that, for the first time, ...

A secret, direct channel between the Kremlin and the White House helped to prevent nuclear war 60 years ago, as Moscow and Washington engaged in a nuclear standoff known in the United States as the ...

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In 1942, the Manhattan Project needed to create a chain reaction—a crucial step toward proving that it would be possible to make an atomic bomb. The scientists achieved this sustained nuclear reaction ...

Governor Glenn Youngkin made eight new announcements at the University of Virginia at Wise on Thursday, including the addition of a new nuclear program. Youngkin announced ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday launched a massive exercise of the country's nuclear forces featuring missile launches in a simulation of a retaliatory strike, as he continued to flex the ...

This story has been updated to include information released by the AERB on 16 March. A coolant channel assembly has been identified as the source of a leak of heavy water coolant at Kakrapar unit 1, ...

In early December, U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright gave a speech at the Idaho National Laboratory, the Idaho Falls research and development facility that in the early 1950s generated the first ...